Building a Strategy for New Zealand – some starters

Here are a few starter strategy phrases. They should give some flavour of the sorts of things that could make good goals. The idea is not to have a goal cover everything, but to address the key things that drive the big changes in the big numbers. Let’s take life expectancy as an example. We …

Building a Strategy for New Zealand – two approaches

Writing a strategy is relatively simple – anyone can do it. Of course there is a catch.. The hard bit is getting people to agree to a strategy, (and the really hard bit is to execute that strategy effectively.) One good way to develop and gain agreement to a strategy is to gather the key …

Swan diving version two: We need a plan

Version two of the Skilling/Weldon document Swan Dive or Belly Flop is now released. The document reflects a more considered response, based on more research and analysis, along with reader and blogger comments and, it seems, just more effort. Good job. I read through the rest of document, and made notes about what I liked, …