by Bruce Cotterill | Jun 19, 2022 | Uncategorised
If I am reading the room correctly, many of us are becoming sick of the Covid-19 excuse box. You know what I mean. That commonly occurring line that poor performance has occurred “because of Covid”. One of our champion “Covid blamers” is...
by Bruce Cotterill | Jun 10, 2022 | Uncategorised
There’s an old saying that economists have predicted 15 of the last three recessions. To be fair, they earned that reputation in the old days, when they tended to see the downside of most things. So their behaviour in the past few years has surprised me. In many...
by Bruce Cotterill | Jun 10, 2022 | Uncategorised
We’ve been talking about it for a long time. It’s casually referred to as dumbing down. I always thought it was an accidental by-product of experimenting with different approaches to teaching and learning. But I’m starting to wonder if it’s...
by Bruce Cotterill | Jun 10, 2022 | Uncategorised
Somebody once said that big organisations are dumb. The comment wasn’t meant to be mean or disparaging. It simply meant that as organisations become larger, the challenges in staying close to customers, responding quickly to changes in the market, and having the...
by Bruce Cotterill | Jun 10, 2022 | Uncategorised
I never thought I would go there. But last week I had the opportunity to go and I did. I never thought I would go to Pike River. In fact, I never gave the topic much thought at all. Despite the tragedy there almost 12 years ago, I had become numb to it. Not because of...
by Bruce Cotterill | Jun 10, 2022 | Uncategorised
I’m disappointed about the America’s Cup. I don’t mind admitting that I enjoyed the hoop-la of the event — the crowds, the racing and the unbridled pride that came with it. Every time we’ve hosted it, Auckland has created an environment and...
by Bruce Cotterill | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorised
Goals are funny things, we talk about them, set them, often discard them, and very occasionally achieve them. Mostly, we set them in our mind. That makes them easy to walk away from. The goal-setting gurus say we should write them down. But in my experience,...
by Bruce Cotterill | Mar 6, 2022 | Uncategorised
Riding for good: Bruce Cotterill and Paul Muir are cycling the length of New Zealand to raise money for Men’s Mental Health and Prostate Cancer. You can follow them on Instagram @bikeforblokes and at www.bikeforblokes.co.nz I have to admit that I’m usually...
by Bruce Cotterill | Feb 22, 2022 | Uncategorised
We spend plenty of time these days talking about the changing role of women in business and the community at large. We regularly champion the need for greater diversity in terms of gender, race and sexuality. And so we should. But there’s another need out there....
by Bruce Cotterill | Feb 13, 2022 | Uncategorised
I drove to the airport the other day. Twenty-eight minutes after leaving home, I was parked outside the terminal. So what, you might say. Well, I had left home at 7am. It normally takes an hour at that time of the morning. But there are no cars. No traffic. No people....
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