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When the dotcom bubble burst, hotelier Chip Conley went in search of a business model based on happiness. In an old friendship with an employee and in the wisdom of a Buddhist king, he learned that success comes from what you count.
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Lately, my cousin Davina and I have been having chats with matua Haami Moeke. He is a kaumatua, a respected Maori elder. His birth place in the Bay of Plenty, bordering on Tuhoe country, Tuhoe Children of the Mist. I think of him latterly as a son of the Four Winds. He has that about him, […]
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“Songwriter and performer Sam Cooke was one of the most popular and influential african-american singers to emerge in the late ’50s, successfully synthesising a blend of gospel music and secular themes and providing the early foundation for soul music
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Borderless Productions is an International Film Company with its global head office in Auckland, New Zealand. It’s purpose is to ‘Change Lives through Filmmaking’. It has two specialist divisions:
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I love to listen to Quiet. I have a sense at times that he’s listening right back as intently as I am to him. We’re respectful toward each other, more so now, than in the beginning when we were both young and had no
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