Cartoon by Guy Body “Hey! Jim Huse!” Last year (before Covid-19), as I boarded a flight to Australia, I heard a voice call out to me. “Jim!” I looked around to see someone calling me from first class. “Do you remember me from Roche Products? You taught me how to change the way I sell […]

Learn how to achieve high sales results and how to influence others towards meaningful solutions by reading and committing to the lessons and insights in my book, Revolutionise the Way You Sell and Influence People I’ve worked in Sales and Sales-training for the last 30 years, and that journey has taken me to from a paid […]

While there are always complaints about “disruptive technology”, in mankind’s journey this is nothing new as there have been many examples over time. Starting with people dragging goods by sled, which is labour-intensive, until mankind invented the wheel. For 100’s of years there was an honourable profession of artists who would record an image of […]

The Balanced Scorecard is a strategic planning and management system that is used extensively in business and industry, government, and non-profit organizations worldwide to align business activities to the vision and strategy of the organization, improve internal and external communications, and monitor organization performance against strategic goals. It was originated by Drs. Robert Kaplan (Harvard […]

The Rich get richer and the Poor get poorer. Tax laws are written for the Rich. When rich people operate within the company tax laws, all of their expenses are written off against their taxes. Whereas when a private individual wants to invest in their own development, the Government takes 30{d734226a53786125751491ce6efe32ea025d4d2798313c69aebe4185048a8b2c} off their disposable income […]

Over the Christmas/New Years break, I built and sold some chicken houses. Here’s how this became a microcosm of starting up and running an enterprise. Last year, a neighbour was doing some work on his house and he had a lot of timber left over that he used for temporary flooring while setting concrete. Afterwards, […]

There are over 700 Learning management systems (LMS) being used globally, but unfortunately, they fall short on many key points for business and organisations. LMS is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of educational courses or training programmes. As well as being used in higher education, they are often utilised […]

At Huse Hill Associates, we often take in interns and provide them with work experience and introduce them to the corporate environment. We currently have 3 interns working with us. Atik has been studying towards a degree in Applied Management. I came to New Zealand to pursue a career in business management with an entrepreneurial […]

Bill Gates once famously proposed the “Paperless Office”, where he would do all his business via screens instead of using paper. It sounds efficient. Less paper means less costs, less mess, more space, no need to hunt around for your pen and paper every time you write something down. For Bill Gates, this works brilliantly. […]

Think about your letterbox at home. Is it full of random letters and correspondence for every assignment or project you’ve ever worked on? Is it stuffed with every personal letter or parcel you’ve ever received? Every joke or funny story someone’s sent you? Is it over-flowing with random bits of material you never managed to […]