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Posts Tagged ‘crisis management’

David Seymour wants to snuff out bottlenecks and barriers to our response to global fuel uncertainty

Written By: - Date published: 3:08 pm, March 29th, 2026 - 14 comments

David Seymour is supplying misleading ideas on how to boost our fuel resilience.

Neoliberalism is anathema to effective crisis management

Written By: - Date published: 5:04 pm, March 21st, 2026 - 24 comments

Don’t hold on to an old umbrella in a wuthering storm.

Pause For Thought # 1

Written By: - Date published: 7:25 am, September 24th, 2010 - 30 comments

The suspension of normal democratic processes in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake should be an occasion to pause for thought in the light of likely future events.

PR301: Edwards and Ralston on Lhaws

Written By: - Date published: 1:50 pm, August 16th, 2010 - 27 comments

Brian Edwards and Bill Ralston give contrasting accounts of Michael Laws’ PR handling of his latest relationship issues. Edwards thinks Laws dealt with it well (and reduced the ‘story’ to a molehill), Ralston thinks Laws cocked-up by preempting any other media coverage and giving more away than necessary. On Ralston’s blog there’s a nicely caustic exchange […]