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People think a lot, yet how much of their thinking is quality thinking?  Listen to the conversations in the workplace, in a store, in meetings.  What is being said says so much about the quality of thinking and that leads to the quality of decisions and actions being made for businesses.  If you want a [...]

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I have just heard Kevin Roberts, Worldwide CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi speak at the National Speakers Australian Convention in Melbourne.  Kevin, well known for his Lovemarks talked about people’s need to be emotionally connected.  He said; “Emotional thinking leads to actions, while rational thinking leads to solutions. Right now we need to inspire people [...]

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That is what I experienced at the Auckland Chapter of  NSANZ (the National Speakers Association of New Zealand) One Night Only Celebration dinner and awards on Wednesday this week.  The winner of the Business Speaker of the Year Hannah Samuel, who is also the President, was so surprised and it was the same for me. [...]

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Today the sun shone on the people of Christchurch.  As I watched and listened to Dame Malvina Major sing this song, at the Memorial Service in Hagley Park for those killed or injured in the February 22nd earthquake, I suddenly had tears streaming down my face. I don’t live in Christchurch and I haven’t lost [...]

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Honne and Tatemae are the two Japanese words for truth. Honne is what you really think or literally ‘the truth’ while Tatemae means what you really show, what you think people want to hear – or literally a’facade’. I have been keeping in touch with my friends in Tokyo.  I have an affinity with Japan [...]

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