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editor | February 24, 2011
Understanding Tony Abbott – by Patrick Callioni
Are there two Tonys? Or are the incongruencies a question of tactics over strategy?
New business opportunities based on ‘connected minds’
Paul Budde | February 18, 2011If as history indicates more connected minds are more conscious minds, then human development (and business innovation) is about to take a great step forward.
What we are seeing taking place around the Web 2.0 developments is an interconnected world. Look at Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, but also at Wikileaks, Google, Flickr, Skype, etc. These services are attracting hundreds of millions of people.
Up until now countries, organisations and companies have been largely organised within silos. These silos have their own experts, their own systems and their own hierarchies, bureaucracies etc. However, it is not too hard to predict that the next phase will put an end to these silos – some of the new Web 2.0 services are already creating severe havoc inside our siloed worlds.
NZ skills shortage to worsen as OZ pull across the Tasman strengthens
Matthew Tukaki | February 8, 2011
My two jiaos worth
R.W.-Chinnery | February 8, 2011I find myself this week facing a problem with the Chinese currency.
The issue is not the controlled exchange rate, which is very much in my favour, but what seems to be an unnecessary proliferation of jiao notes. The jiao (mao in spoken Mandarin) is an intermediate unit in the RMB currency system; ten fen make a jiao, ten of which make a Yuan (usually spoken kuai).
Over two weeks in Beijing I have accumulated such a stack of these tattered, world-worn lolly wrappers that I’ve had to take them out of my wallet so I can close it. I’m going to have to think of a disposal strategy.
It is difficult to avoid amassing such a collection; practically every taxi driver and shop attendant is determined to give them too you. Even in this most developed part of China cash is still king.
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