Posts by Hebe
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Southerly: Now I Am Permitted, in reply to Sacha,
Weaselling goes beyond Christchurch to the core of managerialism. Flash words and filthy results. I blame the ubiquitous MBA.
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Southerly: Now I Am Permitted, in reply to Fooman,
Core competencies: I forgot about that.
Huge invoice: I can do that.Those cartoons make me howl with laughter while referencing the full and frank Anglo-Saxon disclosure regime.
I reserve a special loathing for the condescending "change manager" . Means axe murderer with a styley haircut.
Russell, Instead of hijacking this worthy thread, could we have our own weasel-speak corner?
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Southerly: Now I Am Permitted, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Like Winnie the pup across the issue of dinner but not cute? (Repost)
Now about that house at Dunsandel….
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Southerly: Now I Am Permitted, in reply to Tim Michie,
Across the issue after having drilled down to optimise the stakeholder engagement paradigm.
Gak. I envy David his pavers after this mis-engagement of KPIs.
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Nora Leggs,
And just one more of the cat sculpture in the Winter Garden
Makes my eyes water with wonder.
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Southerly: Now I Am Permitted, in reply to Lilith __,
Are you still going to Caroline's? I have slipped back this year because... of getting derailed,. Again. sigh. When will I learn?
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Southerly: Now I Am Permitted, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Yoga has been on my menu at times too -- it's the mind-body connection that is the key, whatever way it takes you.
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Re the aches and pains: as an early adopter of crippling OOS over 20 years ago, I trudged a long and tortuous path of conventional and alternative solutions seeking. Everything from drugs, prescribed and illegal, to Feldenkrais. I came to realise it was about how I was using the keyboard and my overall bodily condition, not to mention emotional stress. Many things helped.
The solution was tai chi which to me is a moving meditation and dealt to all those areas at once. I had the great good fortune to come across Loo-chi Hu– who stressed the “do what you can” approach to teaching. Some of his students are teaching in Christchurch – I can give you contacts if you wish.
The main thing I found is that no one solution fits all. For some it is as simple as physio and tweaking their work setup. For me it was many things, and an acceptance of needing to change my life!
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Well done; and you've retained a sense of humour! We have badgers too, big buggers. I should have thought of them as the problem...
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Puddleglum says :"Most obviously, there is the question of how the ‘left-right’ alliance that appears to be backing Lianne Dalziel as an independent candidate will be affected. Now that the ‘common enemy’ has quit will the blocks quickly revert to ‘normal transmission’?"
No; Puddleglum fails to understand that Bob Parker alone is not the problem. The problem is the culture fostered by CEO Tony Marryatt and Parker among elected members and among mid and senior level management, and the appalling financial handcuffing of the city finances perpetrated by Marryat and CFO Paul 'Put it on tick' Anderson and rubber-stamped by most of the councillors.
Those people have installed a time-bomb of ballooning debt that will shackle the city for generations -- with no room for absorbing the cost of another major "seismic event" when scientists forecast the current quake series to last at least 30 years.
Amid all that the councillors have had the audacity to vote themselves a fund of $50 million to fund projects they like the look of -- $10m already going to a walkway along the beach from Sumner to Ferrymead. In other words: the fattest local body pork barrel in this country's history is now in place.
The alliance of left and right is not about personalities, it is about grabbing the council machine by the scruff of the neck and forcing it to face up to the economic, social and political realities that it is not "business as usual" in Christchurch, it never will be again if we are to have a viable city for our children, never mind our grandchildren.
Puddleglum may deride the idea of a non-partisan alliance to save the city but many people with "skin in the game" see no alternative.
