by Ron Scott | Mar 25, 2024 | News, Regional Council
Reading: 232 pages Hours in meetings: 9 hours Meetings this week included a review workshop on how you are represented. We have to do this every six years and the discussion centerd...
by Ron Scott | Mar 19, 2024 | News, Regional Council
Reading: 604 pages Hours in meetings: 9 hours A reasonably quiet week this week. The key meeting of the week was the Tauranga Public Transport Committee meeting. We heard there is...
by Ron Scott | Mar 12, 2024 | News, Regional Council
Reading: 1422 pages Hours in meetings: 12 hours A lot of reading this week as the final draft of the Long-Term Plan was given to us to check before it goes on the website for feedback...
by Ron Scott | Mar 4, 2024 | News, Regional Council
Reading: 356 pages Hours in meetings: 14 hours Council is gearing up for consultations and there are more meetings. Navigational by-laws has just ended consultation while the Regional...
by Ron Scott | Feb 26, 2024 | News, Strategy
This week I read about a plane that suffered bird strike, which damaged part of a wing and had to divert to a closer airport. Nothing particularly unusual about that. What really got me thinking was the passenger noticed the damage and was worried about its extent. He...
by Ron Scott | Feb 25, 2024 | News, Regional Council
Reading: 495 pages Hours in meetings: 3 hours Just the one formal meeting this week. The reading was mostly in preparation for next week and a catchup on the Environment Court decision...
by Ron Scott | Feb 19, 2024 | News, Regional Council
This week we had Reading: 441 pages of Council documents and Hours in meetings: 7 hours This week was dominated by the monthly Council meeting followed by a workshop on how we time our Fresh Water Plan updates. I’ll do a separate blog on the water issues....
by Ron Scott | Feb 14, 2024 | Leadership, News
A fellow member of the Harvard Business Review Group, Sean Spurgin, contributed this week some thoughts on self-fulfilling prophesies. His infographic is shown here. “ Most parents are aware that teachers’ expectations about individual children become self-fulfilling...
by Ron Scott | Feb 12, 2024 | News, Regional Council
Pukekauri Farm It’s been a slow start to the year. A group of Councillors visited Pukekauri Farm near Aongatete to see how riparian planting, replanting of wetlands and change of use on the farm had made an incredible difference to water quality in the waterways of...
by Ron Scott | Feb 7, 2024 | News, Strategy
An article I had published last year is the featured article for the Better Boards magazine this month. It asks what you should do before you even think about doing a SWOT analysis on “Strategy Day”. Preparing for Strategic Planning There is a story about...
