I received an email last night Subject: A Measurable Goal for New Zealand.

To be honest, at first I thought it was Spam! I qucikly glanced at it on my Blackberry and saw it was from ‘admin@…’ – a very common sender of the Spam I receive.

It wasn’t until later that I paid closer attention and discovered it to be a legitimate email and one I am glad I didn’t simply delete.

While the email wasn’t signed off by anyone (and i don’t actually know anyone called ‘admin’) I fairly quickly guessed that it could be the doing of Lloyd Morrison of Morrison & Co. Morrison & Co is a New Zealand company that manages infrastructure investments on behalf of Infratil and the NZ Superannuation Fund.

The PDF attached to the email starts with the following quote:

“New Zealand needs a vision that will excite and motivate every citizen to reach new and heretofore unheard of heights. There is no reason why this country cannot be one of the most prosperous nations in the world and a model for others.”

Dr Michael Porter, 1998

I think this initative has a very worthwhile objective behind it and already there is some lively discussion as to what we need to do. There are also some interesting comments by Mark Burgess outlining how our quality of life has changed not only in a financial sense.

For more information and to add your voice to the discussion check out the NZX Blog at: A Measurable Goal for New Zealand.

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