by JAK | Jul 31, 2012 | culture, development, TEDx
At TEDxSydney back in May of this year one of the quiet understated surprises was this geopolitical assessment of the changes to China, Australia and US foreign policy and economics and the background thinking that can help us make more sense of what this means in...
by JAK | Jul 10, 2011 | big ideas, development, industry futures
In 2011 we are all born global and to do well in the competition for capital and other resources we need to develop better measurement frameworks for promoting New Zealand as a centre for innovation to the rest of the world. Its election year in New Zealand and one...
by JAK | Jun 6, 2009 | big ideas, culture, development
One of the developing trends I have been noticing is the big rise in uber-connected people leveraging their social and business networks for a common cause. I support this but wonder if some of the media ripples from the all of this activity are being somewhat...
by JAK | Aug 13, 2007 | big ideas, development, industry futures
A key benefit of the book, The Last Oil Shock book by David Strahan, is found in the last two chapters in which he recommends a series of local and personal actions for urgent changes needed to survive this major threat. In a chapter called “Pass-notes for...
by JAK | Aug 7, 2007 | big ideas, development, TED
At school my daughter is a very excited member of the Enviro Explorers who aim to treasure the environment while many of us parents drive them to school in huge gas guzzling cars. How shortsighted is that? Incredibly it seems that despite 30 years of rising...
by JAK | Aug 3, 2007 | development, general business
At last, we seem to have a Cabinet Minister that fully listens to advisers and the public. Full kudos to David Cunliffe who is one of the key government ministers to really understand the most significant issues in his portfolios. Even better, he “gets”...
