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...
by Ron Scott | Feb 5, 2024 | News
The Government is encouraging new car buyers to buy electric vehicles. This is great until we run short of power and just like your hot water can be turned off when demand exceeds supply so will your charging station be reduced. Transpower’s press release: Transpower...
by Ron Scott | Feb 4, 2024 | Climate, News
Look at the comparison of rainfall between 2023 and the 30 year average. It was a bad first half -and then about average. Last January we had over 130 mm more than this year. That’s almost 4 times more than normal. This year we are back to normality. A year ago, the...
by Ron Scott | Feb 3, 2024 | News
In January we read that the “Department of Internal Affairs is delighted to announce the release of the annual list of the most popular baby names in New Zealand for 2023”. In 2023 37889 babies were given 18666 first names. What can we learn about our country from...
by Ron Scott | Apr 9, 2023 | News
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by Ron Scott | Sep 8, 2022 | News
“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.” That famous quote from Milton Friedman basically says that if you keep printing money, or...
