March 13, 2002

Racy Business

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

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Riding the G-Force

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.

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Rising Airfares

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,

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Listen Up Now

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,

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Taking Risks

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:

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The Bonus Trap

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?

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The Health Merchants

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.

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The Ingenious Device Duo

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.

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Tough Love at the Top

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.

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Tuning In To The Right Signals

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?

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Upfront and in Your Face

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.

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What People Want From Work

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.

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When E-nough’s Enough

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

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Young Guns

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.

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Exam for IS Professionals

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

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Beauty in Business

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

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Breaking and Entering

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

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Building E-Commerce – it’s not DIY

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?

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But What Does It Mean?

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!

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Cancer Tops Health Scare

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.

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Cooler Economic Relations

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.

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Degrees Still Prevail

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

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Economists As Forecasters

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.

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E-motional Computers

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.

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Employers and Manufacturers Merge

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.

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Appointments

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

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Facing Off

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.

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Funny Money Are Smartcards Just A Joke?

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?

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How to Attract the Headhunter

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.

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In a Move

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

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