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6:00 am, November 22nd, 2025 - 5 comments
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Great to see Fran OSullivan today in the NZHerald criticise NZ business leaders and boards for timidity, lack of ambition, lack of business leadership as distinct from l being lawyers and accountants, low quality management, risk aversion, acceptance of political pressure, and lack of mettle.
Good on her.
My impression is that O'Sullivan has done this from time to time over the years – and then in-between has gone back to admiring these 'titans' and giving them the annual free propaganda gift of the "Mood of the Boadroom". She clearly thinks they are important in some way, but then keeps getting disappointed by them. She doesn't appear to have considered why that keeps happening – or at least she seems to think it is a temporary aberration that just needs a stern word from her to set things right. But what if it's not an aberration, but in fact a permanent state of affairs? What if it's just a symptom of something else? O'Sullivan doesn't seem to ask these questions because she's being critical from inside the same tent. This may be unfair – I've ignored her for years because to me she seemed so shallow and predictable.
Stuff off 'overshoot' – life's good, and one day I'll cark it. C'mon guys, keep it together!
https://www.mbie.govt.nz/business-and-employment/economic-growth/going-for-growth
Very sorry to see Marjorie Taylor Green resigning from Congress.
Would've made an excellent nutjob VP to a President Vance.
She could run for Senate next year.