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The origin switch In 2021 the mask slipped. I stopped waiting for institutions to act like adults and accepted a simple truth: no one is coming to save us (my reality check story is HERE). If we want better health, education, business, or government outcomes, we’ll...
How what you focus on determines what you hit — in business, in life, in everything. Some years ago, I was on my snowboard, with a guide and a small group of similarly skilled boarders, about to head into a grove of alpine trees. It wasn’t a groomed trail. There was...
Ten Years On: What Changed for New Zealand Businesses (and What Didn’t) If you’d started a business in 2015, you were living in a different country. Not just economically, but socially, technologically, and mentally. Back then, the buzzwords were innovation, growth,...
THERE IS NO PROBLEM: WHY SOLUTIONS ARE A STATE OF BEING, NOT A REACTION "The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." – Charles Bukowski PROBLEMS ARE EVERYWHERE… OR ARE THEY? We live in a...
How to Build a Business That’s Actually Built to Last Most small businesses don’t collapse because their idea was bad. They collapse because their foundations were weak. They were never built to last. Never built to adapt. Never built to reward the people building...
Why Small Businesses Are Drowning in Tax, Debt, and Silence “A 5-Part Reality Check for NZ Business Owners Who Still Want to Win the Game — or Redesign It” 1. Govt Turns on Small Businesses After Feeding Them Poisoned Candy The IRD’s tax crackdown isn’t about...
THE PARABLE OF THE BAMBOO SUIT A simple truth hidden in plain sight: to get what you want, help others get what they need. Once, a king threw a feast. The only rule? Everyone had to wear a rigid bamboo suit—no bending allowed. The rich came. The wise came. All left...
NZ Business Owners Need to Get Smarter in 2025 Right. Let’s cut through the fluff. It’s 2025. The world’s moving faster than a cat on a hot tin roof, and too many Kiwi business owners are still treating their businesses like it's 1998 with a fax machine and a dream....
A Personal Manifesto for Better Worlds Through Better Business “Some deaths don’t get funerals.Some just get forgotten.” I wasn’t going to share this. Not because I don’t stand by it. But because for a long time, I wasn’t sure what it would do. I wrote it on November...
Stop Treating It Like It’s Bloody Christmas Let’s get one thing straight:Tax isn’t something you deal with once a year.If you’re still waiting until March to “sort your tax stuff out,” you’re already too late—and probably paying too much. Here’s the reality:You can...
