PR Matters » recession http://www.prmatters.co.nz fresh thinking - influential communication Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:27:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Observation is key to innovation” http://www.prmatters.co.nz/observation-is-key-to-innovation/ http://www.prmatters.co.nz/observation-is-key-to-innovation/#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:50:51 +0000 Jane Dodd http://www.prmatters.co.nz/?p=671 “Observation is key to innovation” These were the words of wisdom from guest speaker Ray Avery at the Salvation Army’s launch of their Hope at Christmas appeal at the Holiday Inn in Auckland last week.  He also told us that being alert to the opportunities around us can result in one person changing a single [...]
]]> http://www.prmatters.co.nz/observation-is-key-to-innovation/feed/ 0 It may be the 500,001st word, but it will certainly not be the last http://www.prmatters.co.nz/it-may-be-the-500001st-word-but-it-will-certainly-not-be-the-last/ http://www.prmatters.co.nz/it-may-be-the-500001st-word-but-it-will-certainly-not-be-the-last/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:14:38 +0000 Dennis Lynch http://www.prmatters.co.nz/?p=332 The power of the English language to invent new words and seamlessly adopt them into everyday use is one of its magical strengths, and as a result English is universally recognised as having the richest vocabulary of any of the world’s 2700 languages. Why raise it? Well the thought came to me last Friday following [...]
]]> http://www.prmatters.co.nz/it-may-be-the-500001st-word-but-it-will-certainly-not-be-the-last/feed/ 0 Media serves up hard economic information … but are we interested? http://www.prmatters.co.nz/media-serves-up-hard-economic-information-%e2%80%a6-but-are-we-interested/ http://www.prmatters.co.nz/media-serves-up-hard-economic-information-%e2%80%a6-but-are-we-interested/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:45:44 +0000 Dennis Lynch http://www.prmatters.co.nz/?p=142 The economist Edgar Fielder, who served under Presidents Nixon and Ford, is quoted as saying ‘ask five economists, and you’ll get five different answers – six if one went to Harvard’. This self deprecating comment would draw mirth from his peers because they understood the complexities and intricacies of taking historical economic data, and trying [...]
]]> http://www.prmatters.co.nz/media-serves-up-hard-economic-information-%e2%80%a6-but-are-we-interested/feed/ 0 Bored senseless by recession http://www.prmatters.co.nz/bored-senseless-by-recession/ http://www.prmatters.co.nz/bored-senseless-by-recession/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:43:32 +0000 Network Team http://www.prmatters.co.nz/?p=118 The recession is the elephant in every room and a tired and grey elephant it is at that. Here in New Zealand we started our slide, to feel the effects of economic decline well before the likes of Lehmann Brothers and the spectacular collapse of the subprime mortgage sector in the US became front page [...]
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