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Ross Greenwood [New Zealand]


ross_greenwood.jpgJob title
Facilitator, Impact New Zealand

Last book you read?
Nansen. The father of modern polar exploration

Your heroes include...?
Anyone who puts in more than they take out!

Favourite line from a film?
Dirty Harry:  (Beginning of film, to bank robber) "Ah-ah, I know what you're thinking, "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I've kind of lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum — the most powerful handgun in the world — and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?"

Your best day at Impact (so far...)?
You ask difficult questions don’t you?

What’s on your desk?
My desk is also my dining room table so food and coffee normally

Who makes you laugh?
Billy Conolly, Peter Sellers, my daughters (not necessarily in that order)

Proudest moment at work?
There have been far too many important ones to choose one

How do you deal with stress?
By rationalising everything stressful into meaninglessness

Favourite place?
South Island New Zealand

3 people you’d have dinner with (dead or alive)?
Captain Oates, Reinhold Messner, Winston Churchill