Opinion - comments & editorial from staff and contributors

Comment || James Crow || 6 comments

How to lose customers and influence no one

How not to treat your customers if you want to keep them READ MORE

Comment || Rick Boven, New Zealand Institute || 5 comments

Bold policies needed to close the gap with Australia

It’s great to have a goal. And closing the GDP per capita gap versus Australia by 2025 would be a great outcome. But goals without strategies inevitably lead to disappointment. READ MORE

Comment || James Crow

When fight or flight just won't cut it

Why keeping calm can help your business do better READ MORE

Comment || James Crow || 8 comments

It's really not personal

Why you shouldn't let emotions run your business READ MORE

Comment || James Crow

It's not personal: attention valued shoppers

If the dollars seem to be coming in a little slower than usual, try looking a little deeper at why your marketing isn't getting through READ MORE

Comment || James Crow

It's not personal: business and the human condition

In the first in a series of weekly blogs, Auckland entrepreneur James Crow talks business, happiness and how they can overlap READ MORE

Comment || Trevor Walton

Winners and Losers in the ETS

Public affairs consultant Trevor Walton entered the climate change debate with a client media release in 2001. With the passage of National’s ETS reforms into law, he looks back over eight years of lobbying and politicking. READ MORE

Comment || Keith Ng

Tax revamp no bonanza for small business

A revamp of the tax system could hold nasty surprises for small business READ MORE

Editorial || Mark Revington || 1 comment

Recovery road

We call on the experts to tell us what's ahead in 2010 READ MORE