My 19-year-old daughter Ruby is currently training for a 70.3 (or... Read More
Insights
10 July 2014
Another Uneasy Look at Performance Appraisal
The May-June 1957 issue of Harvard Business Review (HBR) included an article by Douglas Macgregor entitled An Uneasy Look at Performance Appraisal. Macgregor identified issues in the practice of performance... Read more...
17 June 2014
How Amazon introduced me to the Stoics
I first discovered the ancient Roman Emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius a few years ago now. Browsing at Unity Books, (Auckland’s best book-shop), with time to kill and a mind... Read more...
13 May 2014
Ray’s motto for maintaining perspective when things go wrong…
Who is Ray you might ask? Well he’s many things; the much loved rescue pet of our CEO and his family, and our sometimes office dog. Ray is a born... Read more...
22 April 2014
Life Balance, and a New Angle on Integrity
I’m not a fan of the term “Work/Life Balance”. I want to begin by restating this concept simply as “Life Balance”. Let’s dispense with the word “Work” right up front.... Read more...
4 April 2014
Teaching Ethics to Eight Year Olds
I’ve recently started teaching ethics to my 8 year old daughter’s class. Up until the last few years, if you had a kid at a NSW state primary school who... Read more...
13 March 2014
Business Planning – A chance to review performance management
As you enter the annual business planning cycle, it’s worth recalling the old adage that ‘what gets measured gets done’, making it critically important that a performance management framework tangibly... Read more...
