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Industry Week recently posted an article about some of the common traps that leaders fall into. This inspired us to write our take on this topic – adding more depth to some of the issues raised, plus a few others …
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Beware of “Group Think” People in the same team (sometimes even in an entire industry) can tend to all think alike. This is a trap to beware of when setting strategy and forecasting goals. Groups can tend to be over-confident …
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In this busy world of ours, some time honoured habits are just the ticket to make sure things get done and make life easier. For example – whilst scouring around for a fresh take on what’s what, we noticed various …
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This is a story of a young boy who at the age of 12 dreamed of being a watchmaker, and like all good stories, this has a very happy ending.
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This time next year Jess Britten, the winner of the Westpac Young Fashion Designer Award, hopes to be enrolled at London’s Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design, a school that has produced some of the world’s most well known fashion designers.
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Inspired by his travels around Europe and the culinary delights he experienced there, Roger Belton saw the potential New Zealand’s abundance of great shellfish held as a sought after delicacy around the globe.
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The idea is simple: you take something that has been discarded, perhaps forgotten, and turn it into something extraordinary. You let it fulfil its potential.
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Take a luxury 53 foot catamaran and the beautiful fresh waters of Rotorua’s Lake Rotoiti, add a selection of New Zealand’s best food and wine, plus a splash of true commitment to eco-tourism, and you’ve got Pure Cruise.
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Arekatera Maihi is, quite literally, carving out an impressive career.











