Act leader and former Labour Finance Minister Richard Prebble predictably promoted tax cuts when he commented on the pre-Christmas Economic and Fiscal Update and its fiscal projections. “New Zealand can
What do you really want from your life? A fast track to success, better work-life balance, less stress, more challenge?
Marshall Goldsmith is one of the world’s best known – and best paid – executive coaches. Ranked among the top 10 executive educators by the Wall Street Journal, recent profiles
New Zealand companies have work to do to become ‘healthy’ employers. Too many managers suffer the ill-effects of workplace stress and other unhealthy work/lifestyle habits. What can be done to curb the epidemic of work-induced ill-health?
Most organisational knowledge resides with people. And staff churn in many New Zealand companies is above danger levels. That’s a heap of valuable knowledge walking out the door. In this, the second of three articles on using experiential learning, Arnold Kransdorff explains how to offset the problem.
Dynamic effective leadership can bring about vast positive change. The knowledge wave and all other valuable initiatives will be, or are already, lost without it.
I refer to your article in the December issue, entitled ‘Breaking Out’ by Arnold Kransdorff. Normally it is us entrepreneurs who are likely to make grand assumptions, but surely academics
Executive coaching is becoming big business, particularly in the United States, and it’s catching on here. One site I came across suggests there are now as many as 10,000 full-time
Back in 1982 CF Russ wrote: “human resources is probably the last great cost that is relatively unmanaged”. It seems we have not moved that much in 20 years. How
This month poses two challenges Helen Clark’s Labour Government must meet to make memorable second term. The Treaty of Waitangi is commemorated on February 6 and on February 19 the
When Shakespeare wrote, “Uneasy lies the head that wears crown,” he was talking about royalty, but I’m sure the travails of today’s business elite would have attracted his attention. The
I have written about wireless technology many times in the past 12 months, but it was only recently that I was able to experience it first hand on my desktop.
Business will increasingly take the lead in resolving environmental problems. Why? Because it can solve them and because it’s profitable to do so, says Amory Lovins.
