Alternatives To The French ‘No Email After Hours’ Legislation
10 January 2017New French legislation is forcing companies with greater than 50 employees to negotiate with their staff about after-hours email usage. Is email usage just the responsibility of your employer, or are you part of the problem? The French are using legislation to try and reverse the trend. But is law the only way to do this? Personally, […]
The Best Little Taxi Company In New Zealand
13 December 2016Taxis are taxis, at the end of the day – or could they be something else? I’d been visiting my elderly aunt at the new Possum Bourne Ryman Retirement Village in Pukekohe when a bright lime green pamphlet about White Rose Cars [ www.whiterosecars.co.nz ] transport service was dropped in her letterbox. I’d also seen […]
Top Project Manager’s Advice on Wasted Meeting Time
7 December 2016Dr James Brown is a world-class project manager who spent many years with NASA. Much of his time there involved working on the space shuttle programme. I had the good fortune to meet him some years ago at an American conference and was delighted to reconnect in Auckland a couple of months ago. He was […]
Co-Working is Changing the Face of NZ Business
16 November 2016My recent article International innovation in co-working spaces looked at international trends in shared collaborative workspaces. What does our local market provide in the co-working space, you might have wondered. I’m pleased to report that there are some very smart, effective young Kiwi entrepreneurs doing a brilliant job in the same field, and growing fast. […]
Work Anywhere with Agility to Achieve Faster Results with Greater Profit
27 October 2016At a business breakfast a earlier this year I had the good fortune to meet Peter Vile, the CEO of Augen, a bespoke custom software development house. I was fascinated to find that Peter’s firm is spread between New Zealand and Vietnam. There are many benefits of doing business in two countries, and it’s a […]
The Most Reliable (and Time-Efficient) Way to Reduce the Risk of Food Allergies
12 October 2016Everything links with everything. If anyone in our immediate family experiences health challenges, it almost always impacts dramatically on our productivity and ability to work effectively. So even though this column is normally focused on how to utilise our precious time and energy effectively, my choice of topic today still links back to using time […]
When Mistakes Are Okay
30 August 2016I met John very early in my career as a time management trainer and speaker. He had put himself through university by doing casual farm work. His story about how to teach someone a new task is still as vivid as the day he told it. It was his first uni summer holidays. John’s dad […]
Are You Encouraging Laziness?
23 August 2016Laurie has mid-level responsibilities in an IT firm. It’s fast-paced, the firm is growing fast, new faces keep showing up every week, and an underlying sense of organised chaos permeates the whole firm of about 200 people. He’s one of the more experienced team members. So you won’t be surprised to hear that newer staff […]
Don’t Outsource Your Intuition – Digital Reliance And Over-Planning Will Narrow Your Opportunities
27 July 2016I wonder if, like me, you find GPS technology sometimes useful but also distracting and limiting? I’ve just finished six weeks of perambulations around France, having a wonderful holiday as well as language practice with my very patient French friends and research for a future book. In the process I was reminded of the importance […]
Use Technology To Save Your Time, Money & Sanity
21 June 2016Doing the grocery shopping is one of those tasks that we all have to do – and it’s a time-consumer. You might be one of the smart ones who has already changed to buying your groceries online, in which case you can feel very virtuous. Until about a month ago I’d been putting off the […]