At the risk of showing my age, and giving away just how long ago Cactus Outdoor was founded (30 years this October, just FYI), let me tell you a story of technology in days gone by. Back in 1995…
Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to help a number of young entrepreneurs on their journey. This has taken a variety of forms. I’ve being involved with the excellent Young Enterprise Scheme, which aims to give high school…
I’m grateful for the privilege to serve on a number of different boards. The intellectual stimulation that comes from sitting alongside far smarter individuals than myself, collaborating to plot a better future for the organisations we’re entrusted to govern…
As a society, we have quickly forgotten the feeling of panic we felt back when the Covid pandemic first hit. I remember visiting Wellington for a board meeting a few days before the first lockdown was announced and wondering…
Life has many stages, but as most parents will know, one of the most obvious division of life stages is that between when one has no children and when the addition of progeny changes things forever. If those amongst…
As a youngster, I vividly remember lying in my bed at night and looking at the stars in the sky above my bedroom. I would lie and ponder over the enormity of the world, the overwhelming number of things…
I was interested to read recently that my mate, Raf Manji, has been chosen to be the new leader of The Opportunities Party. The Opportunities Party is trying its hardest to shake the image that it is a party…
Regular readers might recall that, as a lad I dropped out of school to pursue an electrical apprenticeship. While I will forever be known as perhaps the worst electrician to complete an apprenticeship at DBE, I’d like to think…
As we (and by we I mean me, obviously) get older, our once razor-sharp vision tends to blur a little and where once we saw the world with crisp edges, things take on a softer focus. This change isn’t…
The business world is full of platitudinous one-liners. Indeed an entire publishing industry has been built up around the slightly annoying tendency to take a one line quote and inflate it into an entire 200 page book – with…