Welcome to my regular series My Light Bulb Moment. This column highlights a blinding flash of insight business, cultural and sports leaders have experienced and how it changed their lives.

Though it's fine to suggest career choices, it's wrong to impose them, especially your own unfulfilled career dreams.

Consumer confidence has eased in the latest monthly ANZ Roy Morgan survey but remains on the positive side of its long-run trend.

Bill English's seventh budget brings home the reality of a hard economic grind, a far cry from the historic rock star sentiments.

Bill English has basked in the NZ economy's rock star status but ironically unforeseen rocky conditions have denied him the satisfaction of unveiling his first Budget surplus.

Rob McLeod, chairman of EY, says while NZ is in a relatively strong position, we face material risks.

There's a lot we just don't know about the Government's moves on tax and real estate, writes Brian Fallow. Trying to judge the likely impact on the Auckland market of the property taxation measure the Government announced on Sunday is one of those times.

In his seventh Budget Finance Minister Bill English keeps a tight fist around the reins of government spending.

Dr Juliet Newson's job as a geothermal reservoir modelling engineer at Contact Energy has her harnessing computer power to visualise the underground steam resources of the Wairakei area.

We might never see a CGT in this country, which could well be a good thing given the compromises that would likely be part of its introduction, writes Mark Lister.

Successful people don't put things off. Instead, as much as possible they finish what they've started.

Maybe you buy a Lotto ticket, have a flutter on the horses or even try your luck at the blackjack table, but would you gamble your salary?

Businesses have lifted their expectations for inflation, sapping immediate pressure on the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates.

Lydia DePillis asks if all the secrecy around the Trans-Pacific Partnership is really worth the price.

The era of the overeducated barista in America is coming to a close.

We need to think of not for profit board seats as a deep responsibility and a job that requires due care and attention.

Prime Minister John Key all but conceded that pressure from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand for action on house prices was a catalyst for recent announcements.

The rising trend of intelligent machines replacing human workers is contributing to a scarcity of jobs.

Watching the Reserve Bank grapple with the housing market has been like watching someone blowing up a long party balloon and trying to twist it into one of those sausage dogs.

That Apple should buy Greece with all the useless cash it has on hand is just a joke that won't go away.

Employers are adding online personality tests to their screening processes to gauge candidates work ethic.

The Auckland residential property boom has developed some of the characteristics of the Dublin bubble a decade ago, writes Brian Gaynor.

Job listings in the design and architecture industry have surged 49 per cent in the past year.

Hillary Clinton has fallen silent on the TPP, an interesting departure from her statements as the nation's top diplomat.

The Reserve Bank desperately needs the support of the Government to address the distortion its monetary policy is helping create, writes Peter Lyons.

Chief economist says Hosking has it wrong when he heaps all the blame for soaring house prices on the Auckland Council.

Auckland house prices climbed 9.5 per cent in just the last three months, according to the Real Estate Institute - an alarming number, Brian Fallow writes.

There can be some negative impacts of transformation projects - here are some ways to cope.

The Reserve Bank has abandoned its one-size-fits-all approach to loan-to-value ratio curbs recognising house price inflation is an Auckland problem.