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Tampering with superannuation requires a flare for finesse.
One of the biggest hurdles to space exploration is our own body. It was not built to live in a state of weightlessness.
Chief legal officers of the country’s largest organisations say keep the rank of Queen’s Counsel, but make appointments more transparent. That’s the result of Corporate Lawyers Association of NZ survey
Changes are occurring throughout the world as the economic base moves towards a greater dependence on knowledge and technology drives global integration.
Festive season self indulgence tends to be followed by new year self-analysis – and for many it can be a sobering exercise.
According to research by Merrill Lynch, the NZ sharemarket ranked 26th in world performance last year, compared to its 34th ranking in 1999. This places us outside the ranking of
One of the results of a faster-paced workplace is the increase in project-based work.
It’s been billed as the experience of lifetime -plucking yourself from the daily routine of life with family and friends, into 30,000 mile ocean race around the world with complete
Will corporate governance hit the Wall? For some, governance is a mantra, others a comfortable theoretical refuge. In fact, the word and much of what it once stood for, is now under siege.
The latest American Express survey shows that airfares continue to rise across all types of fares. Discount economy fares were up more than 10 percent for the whole of 2000,
The knowledge economy is well under way as Kiwis find new ways for traditional tasks.
1. Establish the market (the competitive space) in which your brand competes. 2. Identify your target consumers and the benefits they need or want now and in the near future.
Are you a manager who has to blame others for mistakes, or can you put your neck on the line when you have to?
Workplace stress will top the agenda in light of proposed legislation.
It’s official – women do listen more than men, and men really do listen with just half their brains. In study of 20 men and 20 women at Indiana University,
The turtle gets nowhere unless it sticks its neck out. Calculated risk-taking helps creative-edge organisations to thrive, and earns a reputation for those who deliver positive results. But risk-taking requires courage and an awareness of the following advice:
The idea of using money to encourage people to work harder, faster, smarter is almost as old as money itself – but what is the currency of incentives?
Good health is almost always taken for granted. Apart from the few who see hard work as a worthy end in itself, most of us look forward to spending some of our time enjoying lives with friends and family outside the office.
In a Christchurch neonatal unit premature babies are monitored by a sophisticated device called a brain rescue monitor. The monitor carries out a complicated analysis of the baby’s brain waves and assesses whether the baby’s brain is developing normally. It’s an ingenious device which was in part supplied by a clever Auckland company, MasTec International.
Were we so clever to get rid of morning tea? Was the chat over a cuppa one of the best ways for keeping the company culture alive?
At a cabinet committee meeting in February Helen Clark began tapping her fingers on the table, causing Steve Maharey to interrupt his earnest briefing to inquire: “What’s up?”. “Just get on and do it,” said the boss.
Where does the real balance of power lie in boardrooms? With management? With the board itself? Or does it lie in something as everyday as that wodge of reports and data called the board agenda?
In a recent survey of 10,000 people, 32 percent put public speaking at the top of their list of certainties most to be feared in life. Almost one third would rather die than speak in public.
New Zealanders enjoy a reputation for being hard workers but some of us work too much.
A few years ago I spent a couple of months in the USA going around organisations and learning institutions trying to get an overview of the management scene there.
Blind Freddie couldn’t miss the changes creeping into our language. Slowly but surely we’re reading and writing about the world of dotcoms broadband, bandwidth and digitech. It’s world prefaced with
This summer’s news “silly season” produced a series of shock-horror-probe stories about public servants’ bonuses.
Like newborns, new graduates require careful guidance through their first years of corporate life. There are key areas employers can focus on to get the most out of their graduate recruits.
An international exam for IT security professionals becomes available in New Zealand from this month. Paul Macpherson, KPMG consultant specialising in IS security risk advice, says the exam is new
Mnetary policy review: The end or the beginnning? It seems existence here could be as good as it is going to get.
Being tall and good-looking is the key to career success, according to research carried out at the London Guildhall University. Tall men earn up to 10 percent more than their
We’ve all been guilty of it. Standing around at function with someone you want to disengage yourself from, but not finding it an easy thing to do. Etiquette specialists say
As many Kiwi businesses struggle to embrace the electronic frontier, Renaissance Corp earns over $5 million a week through web-based sales. How has this traditional bricks and mortar business become “new-economy” while retaining traditional values?
It’s almost six months since the Employment Relations Act became law Ñ is what we’re experiencing now the way of the future or the calm before the storm? The forecast is for rain!
New Zealanders believe cancer is the number one health issue facing men, that heart disease is seen as the main cause of male death and that exercise and a good diet are key ways that men can keep healthy.
No, not OK. But it is worrying that two instances of corporate obtuseness should have crossed this desk one after another.
The breakdown of talks between the New Zealand and Australian stock exchanges in February was further evidence of a “c” change in the closer economic relations agreement.
Having a multi-layered career pushes Robyn Hughes into areas where many would feel uncomfortable.
General managers, HR people and recruiters prefer people with university degrees. That’s the conclusion of study by DBM NZ, which found the following trends: ? relevant degree was the most
Are you conscientious employee, or are you compulsive about work? Here’s quiz to help you find out, from US-based Workaholics Anonymous’ 12-step programme: ? Do you get more excited about
If accurately forecasting short-term movements in market rates were simple, economists would abandon their posts to cash in on their prescience and become billionaires.
The state of human and computer interaction is poor, to say the least. Just try yelling at your PC the next time Windows crashes and see how far you get.
The merger of the Employers’ and Manufacturers’ Federations is on track for 2 April.The merger will reduce the burden on employer organisations that are currently paying fees to both bodies.
Nicky Thompson Thompson has been appointed Trade Commissioner and Consul-General to Vietnam, based in Ho Chi Minh City. She replaces Celia Caughey who is returning to New Zealand. ——————————— Greg
Promoters of electronic communication who forecast a dying need for conferences and meetings, could not have got it more wrong.
It’s been a tough year for Anne Knowles, trying to get Government to see the employers’ side of the Employment Relations Bill, but it’s a challenge she thrives on.
If you want to protect your network from hackers and other e-scum, install a firewall.
– Consulting hype or strategic imperative?
Running a photographic image business is busy and risky, but always fun and a challenge to Andrew Cornaga.
In 1888, philosopher Edward Bellamy wrote of a utopian world where money would be replaced by a card based on the “credit” built up by workers’ labour. Since then financial prognosticators have hailed the coming of the cashless society, but when will it arrive?
It’s readily accepted you can’t know it all in business these days. When problems arise there’s a whole slew of experts who will line up to help. But how will you choose the one for you?
How often does the ?collective wisdom’ of your board succumb to groupthink?
Many managers dream of being phoned by a headhunter with a too-good-to-refuse offer to join another organisation. Seldom, however, do dreams come true without planning and preparation by you.
In move towards globalisation, national NZ valuer Darroch is partnering with UK listed property firm DTZ. With operations in more than 118 cities, and turnover of NZ$400 million DTZ provides
Managers are paying for the fuel and running costs of their work-place, but are they motivating employees in the right direction?
The environmentally sustainable economy is shaping up as a new employment creator, generating 14 million jobs worldwide.
As online workers change the structure of decision making, what are the challenges to managers in this new environment?
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