 Drop a frog into boiling water and it will jump out. Drop a frog into cool water and slowly raise the temperature and it lingers, oblivious to the danger, until it is cooked alive. The moral of the boiled frog parable is a reminder to be alert and responsive to gradual changes in our environment.
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How Burleigh Evatt got its name
People often ask was there a Mr Burleigh and Mrs Evatt? This is the true story of how the firm got its name ...
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What we're reading
Want to know what the Burleigh Evatt staff are reading these days? The collection of books, articles and reports represent 'what we're reading'.
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Buzz words, bull and bingo
Are you craving funky buzzwords to toss around? Are you straining politely to comprehend just what your consultant is saying? Here are a few pieces of consulting vocabulary to help you.
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Dinnae get yersel' in a fankle!
Had enough of buzz words and bull, try the other other dialect. Here are a few pieces of Scots vocabulary to help you.
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Are you better-off dead or stuck in traffic?
The recent spate of fatalities on the notorious ‘killer road’ north of Wellington has sparked debate that revealed the underlying assumptions about the ‘value of statistical life’ and ‘value of time’ used in road planning. This piece comments on the grisly cost-benefit calculus.
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Does it make any sense to do the splits?
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Limited (NZX:FPH) just announced a one into five split of its ordinary shares to “provide additional liquidity in the market for the Company's shares”. Companies split (sub divide) their shares when they believe the share price exceeds the amount smaller individual investors would be willing to pay for a share. This is thought to be NZ$10 per share. This seems like voodoo. When a company declares a share split, the price of the share will decrease, but the number of shares will increase in the same proportion. Why bother?
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Is Crown Forest Licence Land in Treaty Settlements a poisoned chalice?
Crown Forestry Licence (CFL) land is seen as an attractive asset for claimant groups to target as commercial redress in their negotiations for settlement of historical breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi. CFL land is often the only remaining Crown land that can readily be procured from the Crown in substantial amounts; conservation land and land owned by State-owned Enterprises being notoriously difficult to obtain.
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The truth about boiled frogs
The boiled frog fable serves its purpose whether or not it is based upon something that is literally true. In truth a frog dropped in boiling water will be scalded and die, and one left in a pan of tepid water is unlikely to wait around to be heated.
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