Making Hay

New Zealand is an island nation, our economic livelihood depends on our imports and exports and the processes around them. We also have low productivity, I wonder why? Here’s my recent experience. On 7 January 2012 I ordered a product from a supplier in Germany, it was picked, packed and despatched on the 9th, a [...]

Economically simplistic but still perhaps the cleverest and simplest description of the debt problems facing both the US and many European counties. Why the U.S. was downgraded: U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000 Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000 New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000 National debt: $14,271,000,000,000 Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000 Let’s now remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household [...]

“But words are things and a small drop of ink, Falling like a dew, upon a thought produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think; and why what we write needs to carefully considered… ‘Tis strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages; to what straits [...]

The language is no longer current, the “motivational techniques” will not pass today’s muster but in essence there is much to be said for the sentiments expressed in… A Message to Garcia By Elbert Hubbard 1899 In all this Cuban business there is one man stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars [...]

I’ve just finished a call with a colleague in the States who is facing that thing we know so well… the mid-life crisis. It sounds banal but it is a very real experience for those going through it. And it looks something like this. My work no longer satisfies me I try to find satisfaction [...]