Power of good: how empathetic leadership boosts the bottom line
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Power of good: how empathetic leadership boosts the bottom line

There's a business case for learning how to be a compassionate and connected leader, says author and clinical psychologist Dr Harold Hillman.

Matt Philp 15 Aug 2021
Six of the best — how to do a West Coast adventure
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Six of the best — how to do a West Coast adventure

New Zealand's wild West Coast is a thing of beauty and provides visitors with the best of all worlds.

Matt Philp 07 Mar 2021
Rock and awe - on course for adventure in Central Otago
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Rock and awe - on course for adventure in Central Otago

Big sky, sheer rock bluffs, a powerful river rolling through a remote canyon – Central Otago is the part of New Zealand where your Spotify music feed is locked on ‘lonesome, Western’. That raw southern landscape, all schist and scrub, gave us a 19th-century gold rush and now sust...

Matt Philp 14 Aug 2020
The big chill - going off-piste in Queenstown
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The big chill - going off-piste in Queenstown

Queenstown in winter is Queenstown ne plus ultra. The Remarkables, always impressive, are even more imposing when their arrowhead peaks are dipped in white. Lake Wakatipu tends to be glassy, and the alpine air is at its keenest. Exit the airport terminal and you’ll feel like you’...

Matt Philp 24 Jul 2020