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Business ImprovementWho would have thought?
Gilligan Sheppard and I strongly align on several things. In particular, their purpose of enriching lives aligns with my personal purpose of improving people’s lives through business and improving business through people. One way we thought this could materialise was by providing business improvement workshops. We conducted an initial workshop with GS clients on ‘Developing […]
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Let’s Achieve Something
The feminist movement, the female era, gender diversity, gender pay equity, quotas for females on boards, women in business support groups – are all words, phrases, organisations we hear of almost daily; in the news, in articles, on social media, at our workplaces. I have been trying to formulate my thoughts on all of this […]
Business as a means to assist the individual pursuit of happiness
When you visit a place like Washington DC, where the most powerful country was birthed and read the words inscribed in the Jefferson Monument: [box] “We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty and […]
Benefiting From Others Going First
How did I come to be on an island, walking through the bush with two Aussie blokes at 5.30am? For the past few years I have been a member of an informal Trans-Tasman Best Practice Group. The formation of the group came from a shared membership of what was then Polaris – an international accounting […]
Christmas Traditions
Some people take the Grinch approach with Christmas, some at the other end of the scale, are happy to wear decorated headbands, earrings, play Mariah Carey or Michael Buble carols incessantly. There are some odd traditions; Boxing Day, mistletoe, stockings… ever thought about how they came about? Christmas Christmas, as most of us know, is […]
GSTV: Offshore Suppliers & GST – Live Conversation
Recorded conversation took place on Wednesday 5th December 2018. Like most taxing jurisdictions around the globe, NZ has a consumption based sales tax, known as GST (VAT equivalent in other countries), which has been in existence since 1986. Up until recently, usually only supplies of goods or services made in NZ, had the potential to […]
