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The young baby screamed
The young baby screamed; his small face screwed up into a crinkled little ball. The high-pitched protest bounced off the walls, echoing. Between screeches, he took laboured breaths, his little body shuddering with the effort. Vibrations rattled t...
What maketh the man?
I was a scrawny, nervous young lad when I got to high school. For those from overseas, high school is around your 8th year of school through to when you leave school at around 17/18 in NZ. Anyway, I had a hard time. The nickname for my school was Pen...
Creativity
I honestly can’t pin point the time when I knew I wanted to be a creative person. Looking back, I see trigger points. A unique solution to a problem, playing Dungeons & Dragons as a kid and spending more time working on the story line that...
New Zealand – Economic Capital of The World (1/12)
New Zealand’s days as a manufacturer of goods and dairy are well and truly numbered. The high cost and low margins are simply not sustainable. This is a twelve part series exploring what New Zealand might be able to do with strong leadership an...
Employment Fine Print
“Please do not waste both our time threatening me or proffering legal advice. Your threats are risible, and you are patently not qualified to give legal advice.” All I did was ask my ex-client to stop trying to poach my staff. Quite reaso...
Dealing With Mr. Big
Masters. They are everywhere. We work our lives through a series of encounters with them. Regardless of whether you are a person in power, sometimes your life will collide with a master, and how you deal with that encounter determines the rest of you...
