Lesson from The Brothers Karamazov
By Brett Crombie, Director, Straightedge Accounting. Russian novels are not generally known for their business lessons, least of all Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels, which tend toward...
Author : Alan Titchall
Reflections on the Local Government Review Panel
By Linda O’Reilly, Partner, Brookfields. Forty-four years in and around local government in NZ is a long time, but I know many who started before...
A lesson in brevity from Sir Winston Churchill
By Brett Crombie, Director, Straightedge Accounting. A recent book I read covered the appalling period in late 1940 when Hitler’s forces heavily bombed England in...
Climate and interesting court cases
By Frana Divich, Partner, Heaney & Partners. Royal Dutch Shell has been ordered by a court in the Netherlands to dramatically reduce its global emissions. I...
A silly slogan is not a place brand
Nick Sampson, strategy director with Principals Brand Agency has led place branding and story projects for Taranaki, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Southland and the Hauraki...
China – more diplomacy and less taniwha
Peter Dunne, ex leader of United Future and a minister in former National and Labour governments. The Government is right to resist attempts to turn...
New Watercare chief – from air force to water
Watercare’s new CEO Jon Lamonte was so new to his role that when Mary Searle Bell spoke to him, he was still isolating in quarantine...
Water reforms point to need for more skills
As the three waters industry grapples with a looming skills shortage, Water New Zealand chief executive Gillian Blythe looks at some of the opportunities for...
Sound! Lights! Action! Lawyers?
Jane Arnott, Director of The Ethics Conversation, says it’s time potentially inadvertent errors of judgement are accounted for without recourse to lawyers and litigation. We...
Council makes and sells its own moonshine
In recent years both local and national museums have made moves to attract a much wider range of visitors with new models and displays but...