Questioning the establishment

03/21/24 • 7 min

Might need to take a few risks?

For the past few weeks, Sophie has been talking to Deanna Anderson who’s the Kaitohu of the Energy Academy which is working to grow our talent pool in support of a sustainable energy system.

Last week Deanna’s challenge was that our working environment was designed by men to enhance the productivity, well, of men – and whether that’s going to be ok?

This week, John throws the challenge of showing us what good looks like back to her ...

Might need to take a few risks?

For the past few weeks, Sophie has been talking to Deanna Anderson who’s the Kaitohu of the Energy Academy which is working to grow our talent pool in support of a sustainable energy system.

Last week Deanna’s challenge was that our working environment was designed by men to enhance the productivity, well, of men – and whether that’s going to be ok?

This week, John throws the challenge of showing us what good looks like back to her ...

Previous Episode

Do we need to co- or re-design the workplace?

Or will we attract and retain our future workforce as it is?

For the next few weeks, Sophie is talking to Deanna Anderson who’s the Kaitohu of the Energy Academy which is working to grow our talent pool in support of a sustainable energy system.

Last week Deanna and Sophie talked about the importance of reverse mentoring where younger workers may need to coach those who’ve been in the workforce for a while and how technology could change the way we pursue and manage productivity.

This week, Deanna’s challenge is that our working environment was designed by men to enhance the productivity, well, of men – and whether that’s going to be ok?

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Jim Bushnell - If electricity liberalisation is so great, why does everybody hate it?

A Californian perspective from someone who ought to know

This is the first of a podcast series I recorded back in 2013 on Energy News that I am now releasing. It remains relevant today as we embark on another review of the New Zealand electricity market.

Jim Bushnell is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis. He was in New Zealand in August 2013 as the ST Lee Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation. He gave a lecture in Wellington asking If Electricity Liberalisation is So Great, why does everybody hate it? Topical stuff in the light of the Labour-Green Power NZ proposals, but the audience was about 100 of the usual suspects and I thought it deserved a wider airing.

Over the next few months we’ll retrace the journey from an American perspective – from why they liberalised electricity in California, to Enron and the recent cases of price manipulation against JP Morgan and others. Bushnell starts by explaining what motivated him to write the lecture – and it wasn’t Power NZ.