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I was flying home on Tuesday night and just before we began our descent into Wellington I was surprised to hear about Air New Zealand’s new recycling policy. Apparently passengers can now do their bit to help the environment by recycling the plastic wrappers of the in-flight sweets.

I tried to talk to the person [...]

The conceptual framework I’ve used here which looks at the different types of human groups is from some work published in the Harvard Business Review I read this year, which I am sorry to say I can’t find online. But I thought I should come clean that the concepts are not my own (although I [...]

When I first got back from London in 2005 I met with Mark Harris, then at the SSC, to introduce myself and begin the process of getting in touch with the local Wellington web community.

During the meeting I mentioned an anomaly to do with the naming of the government sub domain under the .nz [...]

Depending on how you measure these things, Manchester United is the most successful English Football Club of all time; they are tied for first place with (my beloved) Liverpool for overall number of championships wins (18) but have won 11 FA Cups to the Merseysider’s 7.

Manchester United is also famed for an attacking style [...]

Communication technology profoundly changes the nature of the relationship between strategic decision makers and the subject of those decisions, typically people, and it’s probably worth taking a few minutes to define those things with more accuracy.

An operational decision maker uses facts to makes decisions - a strategic decision maker makes decisions based on imperfect [...]

I proposed to my long term girlfriend, Megan, on Friday night (October 16th 2009) in Molley Malones, the bar we met in on June 25th 2005. She accepted my proposal and we are planning our wedding for Autumn 2011, somewhere in the Otago Lakes district of New Zealand.

This is what I said.

Every one [...]

I have mentioned before I learned my trade within the field of corporate communications and this post looks at communication issues from an organisational, as opposed to an individual level.

About 2.5 billions years ago, in the opening stages of the evolution of life on earth, tiny single celled organism created a problem for themselves. [...]

I spent the afternoon looking through the site at the posts and the comments and wanted to pull a few of my favourites together for the 10th Birthday Celebrations for Metafilter in Wellington.

But here’s to you – the Blue, peace and love to all who sail with you.

The first comment I made that [...]

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OXFAM NEW ZEALAND TRAILWALKERS ARE VERY PROUD TO PRESENT
What: Benefit Event
Where: Embassy Theater, Wellington
When: February 9, 2009 at 8pm
Proceeds from this event are going to Oxfam to help them fight [...]

It is summer in New Zealand now and looking out on the clear blue sky quilted with tufts of cotton wool clouds; you could be forgiven for thinking nothing has changed. Every morning the sun rises slowly in the east, reaching it peak around midday, before sinking to settle behind the hills to the [...]