New Zealand travel: Why I was wrong about guided tours
28 Apr, 2021 11:00 PM
5 minutes to read
A view on the majestic Routeburn Track, one of New Zealand s Great Walks. Photo / Michelle Langstone
A view on the majestic Routeburn Track, one of New Zealand s Great Walks. Photo / Michelle Langstone
NZ Herald
Michelle Langstone has a change of heart
I m 42 and I d never been on a guided travel tour. It s worth mentioning this because I am slightly phobic of groups and ordered schedules. I don t like having to do things at the same time as everyone else, and I ve always viewed travel tours as a kind of hell you can t get out of jammed into a bus or a boat with strangers, no say in your own destiny, having to hop on and off and dutifully record your presence at landmarks. I would like to state for the record that I have been very wrong, and provide as evidence, a thoroughly delightful one-day tour of the Fiordland National Park.
Bookie wonderland: How book club became the new nightclub
6 minutes to read
Trending, Lifestyle and Entertainment reporter, NZ Herald Books have always had the unique ability to whisk us away to other worlds - whether we re sitting in a quiet library, on holiday surrounded by beachgoers, curled up on the couch at home, or waiting for a bus.
But this especially hit home over the past year when we were all stuck inside for days on end - our books provided the perfect form of escapism.
Now as life gets somewhat back to normal, they re providing a sense of community in the form of the humble book club.
The CEO whisperer: Leaders are surrounded by liars
6 Mar, 2021 10:00 PM
13 minutes to read
Financial Times
By: Michael Skapinker Everybody is normal until you know them better, Manfred Kets de Vries tells me. As a leading explorer of top executives psyches, Kets de Vries has, for decades, had a close-up view of what drives those at the top, and what dark thoughts lurk behind their domineering facades.
The 78-year-old professor has written more than 50 books and 400 articles and book chapters, many of them examining leaders narcissism, how they are affected by their early relationships, and what that does to their communication or lack of it with their loved ones and staff. I observe that not many people have, as he puts it in his most recent book, combined John Maynard Keynes s dismal science with Sigmund Freud s impossible profession .