A shudder of sand dusts the tent walls as he flips over for the umpteenth time, sleeping bag mangling in the decision-burdened wakefulness of the long night. Backwards and forwards, body echoing mind – get on the river, or get out. Ke garne? The sleepfree mangler: Pat O’Keeffe: white-water [...]
Vision is dead (long live visioning) It’s time to stop focusing on vision – on peering forward into the mystical never-never prescribing an ideal state And expecting leaders to have a magical ability to predict, present and make possible the future Let’s let go of confining ourselves to a [...]
Some work I was involved in supporting the effort to rebuild tourism, to rebuild economies after the devastation of the April 2015 earthquake (and the subsequent and equally crushing media coverage) Tourism represents around 4% of direct GDP and has a multiplier effect of 9x, so 36% It is an [...]