Listener 23 March 2002
Keywords Business & Finance; Growth & Innovation
When you choose a target, make sure it cannot distort your real objectives. Consider the man desperate to diet, who decided at New Years not to eat between meals. He kept strictly to his resolution. By the end of February he was eating his May 23rd dinner.
Presentation to ‘First Loves’, a session at ‘Reader’s and Writer’s Week, 17 March 2002.
Keywords Miscellaneous
Sometime in middle school – between Standard Three and Form Four – my class was read Charles Lamb’s Dissertation on Roast Pork. It may have come from a school journal, because others of my age have a similar memories, whereas commonly those who are a little younger dont know the essay. …
Overheads for Environment Canterbury Seminar 13 March 2002
Keywords: Growth & Innovation
Listener 9 March, 2002.
Keywords: Growth & Innovation;
Just before Christmas the Treasury released seven papers on the ‘economic transformation’, the government’s term for where it wants the economy to go. The papers are individually authored, and do not represent the Treasury view. Indeed the Treasury has not yet got one. …