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<i>Deborah Hill Cone</i>: Better to give, not just receive

This week I am playing it safe with an easy target. Let's hear it for receivers.

<i>Debbie Mayo-Smith</i>: Social media success needs hard graft

For months now I've been using the term "freasy" for social media marketing. Meaning it's free and easy to do.

<i>Cliff Brown:</i> Softly, softly best on interest rates

<i>Gill South</i>: Companies setting themselves up to lose the battle for talent

Too many businesses are relying on the recession to keep staff from moving on.

<i>Damien Grant:</i> Just get rid of the dead wood

<i>Bernard Hickey:</i> Kiwis, count your blessings

There are 10 reasons to be cheerful after two weeks of gloom. They are also an antidote for those who say I am a permanent harbinger of doom.

<i>Liam Dann</i>: Finding nuggets of economic hope amid the rubble

<i>Brian Gaynor</i>: Savings big issue for capital-starved NZ

<i>Craig McIvor</i>: Sins of the father ensuring the continuity of family-owned firms

Simple handover plan can remove the angst and smooth the transition of a family business to a new generation.

Sean D'Souza: Spiced up news will ensure clients return

<i>Bernard Hickey:</i> Signs of SCF's failure for all to see

<i>Liam Dann</i>: SCF city slicker in homespun clothing

<i>Brian Gaynor</i>: Sth Canterbury an inevitable train wreck

<i>Media</i>: Sex creeps into early prime time TV

A respected children's media expert is lamenting that kids have been sacrificed to sleaze under NZ's TV standards system.

<i>Brian Fallow</i>: Income splitting hardest on poor

Peter Dunne's bill is unfair, unaffordable and unlikely to happen, writes Brian Fallow.

<i>Liam Dann</i>: Hey Mr Key, tell me why I have to pay