February 4, 2002

IT is virus prone. But good management practices, with software, can reduce the risk of infection.

With business growth we can increase our standard of living.

If you haven’t got a personal health plan to go with your business plan you could be headed for heart attack country – or worse. It pays to take care of yourself and your team.

Organisational change delivers career-conscious executives the chance to acquire a broader set of skills, and develop a more holistic view of the enterprise. Acquiring communication, leadership, strategic planning and performance management skills will boost your effectiveness and help your employees to build lasting relationships with customers. Performance management skills are also linked to wringing better value from investment in customised executive traini

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Business is against it. The Government wants to set a “leadership” example. Ratifying the Kyoto Environmental Protocol is this year’s tricky economic issue.

Ground Zero New York. Strategies to rebuild the global economy may not be relevant here.

Some outrageous things are said about raising and lowering taxes. And the debate appears to picking up again.

Takeovers and mergers are now commonplace. But most of them fail. Here’s how to evaluate an acquisition before it’s too late to back out.

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

Always one to buck the trend, entrepreneurial Auckland businessman Tony Falkenstein recently announced his takeover of local trade exchange, Bartercard.

All is not happy in the Labour-Alliance garden and the Greens are becoming decidedly fresh. Helen Clark might need to resort to some astute political engineering.

Following the business community’s increasingly intoned mantra extolling New Zealand to become a top 10 OECD economy by 2010, the national office of the New Zealand Institute of Management has undertaken research to determine just what personal qualities tomorrow’s managers need to get us there.

Executives good at creating healthy financial bottom lines, shouldn’t achieve it at the expense of their personal health.

John Loughlin, CEO of Richmond meat company, might have been a finalist in the Deloitte/Management magazine Top 200 Executive of the Year Award at the end of last year, but his achievements at the company “are far from complete”.

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The winner is… Sharon Rowland from Auckland is the lucky winner of Verve Workstation worth $789 offered by Criterion Furniture and Management magazine at the end of last year. Sharon

CRM delivery gap

As organisations try to predict what the year ahead has in store, what industrial relations lessons can employers learn from the year just gone?

There’s no room for management books or published theories on Peter Fahey’s management bookshelf. When it comes to managing Yves Saint Laurent’s operations in Australasia, he ‘just does it’ to tweek another brand statement.

Successful people have three things in common – they know where they are now, they know where they want to be, and they move along that path daily. Their actions

Get ready to indulge yourself, it’s that time of year. Here’s five indulgences to turn your end of year rest and recreation into something special.

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British-based management consultancy Independent Decision Makers (idm) is using the airlines’ Star Alliance approach to global expansion to set up in New Zealand.

A proactive approach to managing procurement can make a world of difference during a recession. It can also help you capitalise on future opportunities.

New Zealand’s growth record isn’t good. If we want the kind of standard of living that we believe we are entitled to, then it needs to get better.

Anthony Howard Howard, principal of AJW Howard & Co and ex-CEO of Blue Star, has been appointed to the boards of information technology company Eagle Technology Group and telecommunications software

Louise McKay Foster’s International NZ has appointed McKay as its new marketing manager. She returns from the UK, where she was senior brand manager with the brewer, to take up