by JAK | May 3, 2012 | big ideas, culture, general business, industry futures
Last year a couple of big finance stories caught my attention. I had just seen the movie Inside Job . What was very interesting to me was the idea that economists and other academics in the finance world had been utterly compromised by the global financial meltdown....
by JAK | Dec 29, 2011 | big ideas, culture, general business, industry futures
As in many countries, New Zealand has had several prime city locations occupied in recent weeks as part of the Occupy Wall St OWS movement. OWS is an ongoing movement which aims to reset the economic agendas and local debates about equality of citizens and to try and...
by JAK | Aug 23, 2010 | general business, industry futures, TEDx
Here are some very timely work / life balance insights for those of us over 30 any age – from Nigel Marsh. Meaningful engagement takes effort and a level of conscious attention that we all need to work at. I love being a Dad but juggling a business and a life...
by JAK | Feb 19, 2009 | general business
Update: viA PAS and Twitter 4:18pm “Result! Government announces delay in 92A enactment until March 29. If no agreement by then, it will be suspended. Hat-tip: MsBehaviour on Twitter. My reading is that this puts pressure on the owners’ lobby to deal. Even...
by JAK | Jan 23, 2009 | general business, TED
Christmas is holiday time for many of us in the Southern hemisphere. Sun, sand, surf, swimming – you get the idea. It also seems that when we get a chance to have more than a week away from our office and/or jobs a much higher percentage of us rethink our jobs....
by JAK | Nov 20, 2008 | big ideas, general business
One of my late grandmothers lived through the 1929 Depression in New Zealand and that stayed with her all her life. She lived for 90+ years but the memories of those times were never far away and it always seemed like a pivotal moment which shaped a generation...
