Garry's list of projects we should be fast tracking... I was one of many people who worked with communities which had been cut adrift when the last big recession occurred in New Zealand after the Rogernomics reforms of the 1980’s. We worked with those who were laid off from the Railways, … [Read more...]
Lets’ not stuff up the rebuild of our City and our economy as we did last time
Jim Lunday sent me his presentation for TedX just after the earthquakes this week. It is still amazing, and challenging. It’s one which Lianne Dalziel still talks about having given her a sense of hope. Unfortunately, Jim came down here to work and experienced a solid wall of resistance to his … [Read more...]
Collaborative Frameworks
As a wonderful example of collective action, I was delighted to read this in Newsroom this week: The CEOs of the five organisations have been meeting virtually twice a day over the past two weeks; BusinessNZ has embedded a member of its staff, Phil Love, in the Ministry of Business Innovation and … [Read more...]
Safety of Workers
When life returns to the streets, things will be quite different. It will take us some time to adjust to it. This week in Newsroom Rod Oram wrote this which is well worth considering as a guide to our changed lives: … [Read more...]
Rod Drury
This man is a serial entrepreneur. His latest project has been Xero the accounting system which has revolutionised accounting. He wrote these comments in an article this week in Newsroom: Covid-19 has shown us that we can’t take life or our economic system for granted. We must use the opportunity … [Read more...]
Slave Labour
I visited Italy at the end of last year. What a wonderful place. I really like the Italian’s approach to the Catholic Church. They are baptised, married and buried in the Church. The rest of the time the least they have to do with the Church the better. The town we stayed in was 2300 years old. The … [Read more...]
Greenpeace petition:
This came into my email this week from Greenpeace: I’ve just signed a petition calling on the NZ Govt to adopt The Green Covid Response, a green economic stimulus response to the Covid-19 crisis. The government is poised to inject billions into the economy to smooth the impact of the … [Read more...]
In Conclusion 21 April 2020
The quantity of humour which has emerged from “bubbles” around the world has been fantastic. Thanks to dave Adamson for our musical interludes. The first came out of somewhere in New Zealand. Frustrated with Zoom - watch this from the Police - fantastic … [Read more...]
Garry’s reading from around the world this week:
From the New York Times: But in trying to destroy the administrative state — in trying to make government small enough to “drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub” — conservatives left the country vulnerable to a deadly disease that has undermined that project and galvanized its … [Read more...]
The planning needed for our economy post Covid-19:
As a society we need to think Regionally about how we kick start our economy. Our region is firstly Canterbury; and then the South Island. We will easily be forgotten by big demanding Auckland insisting that it must be front of the line. All politicians will rush to appease Auckland and surrounding … [Read more...]
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