2020 Book Review — Books with multiple on-ramps, make it easy to go on a short journey and arrive back home with a satiated mind. The Practice is a compact prose yet packs in 219 (two hundred and nineteen!) on-ramps of opportunity. …

Ship Creative Work — The Practice is the 20th book by Seth Godin and I hope it does for you what it did for me when I took a deeper inspection into Seth’s practice of merely shipping the work. The next section describes the creative practice work I’ve shipped to help New Zealand businesses…

What to consider before decided your provenance strategy. — You don’t have to label your product with the ‘New Zealand Made’ Kiwi trademark. There are many alternatives and in this article we look at 6 alternative approaches that might work just as well for you. 1. Write ‘New Zealand Made’ On Your Product You don’t need to show a logo. You could simply write the words ‘New…

There is so much that can be learnt from our peers. — Getting better at business is an incremental process and one thing I know about Kiwi business owners, is we’re interested to hear what our neighbour is up to. We’ve all had that moment when you meet up with someone who sparks an idea that you take away with you… despite…

Sharing uniquely Kiwi stories that are contributing to New Zealand’s future. — Kiwis love to hear what Kiwis get up to. Stories resonate. Stories get retold. So of course a podcast that featured A Kiwi Originals made sense. Now you can copy the playboook for your own membership organisation. Representing Your Members. Sharing Their Stories This article is for membership groups who want to go beyond ‘traditional digital’…

This isn’t new. Network connectivity has made it easy for distributed teams to collaborate for two decades. My first remote job was in London 2003. Covid-19 forced Zoom use so that even grandma is confident now. Workers who need an office, probably prefer a better home office. Earthquakes are telling us that centralised working can be risky. Covid-19 might be almost done, but the shadow it casts will remain.

It’s Hard To Find. It’s Hard To Buy. It Costs Too Much. — These three complaints I hear on our social newsfeeds and in too many cases, Kiwis are exactly right. Here’s why. NZ Made Is Hard To Find In Big Box Stores. Of course it is. That’s the point. Big box retail preference scale and volume of product imported from overseas…not quality. The low price sticker has trained us to buy on…

Covid-19 has made it a whole lot weirder. Embrace it. — I never thought that New Zealand’s business future would get this weird when I wrote “New Zealand’s Weird Business Future’ as a prologue to 100% Kiwi Business.

$12.1 billion dollars is a lot of money in New Zealand and that’s how much of a war chest is being allocated for fighting COVID-19. Globally we are now on a war footing with a virus….and at a level us humans haven’t seen in a century. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern…