Tweet I’m lucky to be attending the Australian Institute of Company Directors 2010 conference DIRECTORSHIP:10 Ahead of the Curve in Christchurch this week. Sessions today included: Australia and New Zealand – performing in the global arena Is the current system broken? Challenges and opportunities in the global economy March to modernity – Asia tomorrow and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'finance'
Company Directors conference 2010 – day 1
May 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ideas
Tags: business·finance·future·innovation·management·technology
Freedom – price or cost?
April 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · ideas
Tweet Many people have told me that freedom has a price. While others have told me that freedom has a cost. It got me thinking about the difference between a price and a cost. While pondering about this I recalled the Oscar Wilde quote: “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything [...]
Tags: #nocleanfeed·finance·freedom·future·liberty
#febusave update – nearly 9,000 women signed up
February 24th, 2010 · Comments Off · frugal, ideas
Tweet Nearly 9,000 women signed up for the Febusave 2010 campaign, for example: 2,307 pledged to give up buying lunch 1,118 pledged to give up treats 162 pledged to give up taxis These might not seem like much; but little changes like this can make a real difference to your finances. My pledge was to [...]
Progress report on my #febusave pledge
February 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · frugal, ideas
Tweet For the month of February I decided to give up driving to work and bank the savings. It’s been surprisingly easy to catch the train each day, even if it does mean I need to plan ahead a bit more. The savings have been a real eye-opener, especially when one of my friends mentioned [...]
Savings plan progressing nicely for #febusave
February 15th, 2010 · Comments Off · frugal
Tweet I’ve been following up on my pledge to catch public transport as much as possible during February, especially for the commute to the office. I’m finding the daily train trip gives me a few unexpected benefits in addition to saving money: more time to work on projects rather than concentrating on driving in the [...]
2010 Blog theme – women in …
February 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · ideas
Tweet I’ve been thinking about having an overarching theme for my blog this year and have finally decided on women in … that is women who are doing interesting things like finance technology science engineering management innovation start-ups marketing media and whatever other interesting careers pop up Women have come such a long way in [...]
Tags: business·careers·community·finance·future·innovation·management·marketing·media·women
Savings and managing credit – a hard lesson to learn #febusave
January 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments · frugal, ideas
Tweet We do not often share stories about our personal finances (except perhaps to boast of some great success?) but here are some hard won lessons I have learned. My parents were not great savers, subsisting from pay to pay in the way that many workers do. Thus I did not learn much about saving [...]
Just got my #Febusave blog ambassador badge
January 19th, 2010 · Comments Off · ideas
Tweet Getting women to think about their finances, to plan and save more is important. The better control we have over our finances the more choices we have in life. Why not click the badge below and join us for Febusave? Tweet
