Poorly planned and executed presentations invariably waste time and money. Here’s how to brush up on your presentation approach, and apply just the right amount of technology.
It’s 2020, and 33-year-old John is head of International Plumbing Corporation billion-dollar New Zealand-based multinational. Not bad for young guy, whose father ran one-man plumbing business in Onehunga all his
Through my speaking engagements around the country I am exposed to many different businesses. And I find that much of the service or work performance of our enterprises is very average. Excellent service is a rarity and the bigger the company the worse the service seems to be.
I write to draw your attention to significant and misleading error in the December issue of Management. In your cover story article, on page 27, you state that: “Fonterra’s performance
The brand, David Forman, was synonymous with the best in sales and negotiation training in New Zealand. Then things turned sour and the business ended up in the hands of a liquidator. In stepped former adman David Glover and his partner Steve Scott who bought the business confident they could restore it to its former glory. Why the leap of faith and how did they do it?
Globally, Kiwi managers fly higher because they’re not weighed down by negative cultural baggage. That and a down-to-earth attitude allows them to get on with a wide range of people, says Richard Mathews, a Kiwi who runs a very international team.
It’s a common enough term in modern management speak, “supply chain management” (SCM), but what does it really mean? It seems to mean different things to different people. But if it is as important to the bottom line as some commentators would have managers believe, is it as difficult to implement as it is to define?
Ever since the first 1964 US Surgeon-General’s report showed clear connection between cigarette smoking and cancer there has been an elaborate smokescreen campaign of denial, spurious research and sophisticated ploys
The loyal employee might be rarer beast in today’s work world, but it seems New Zealand is home to more than its fair share. That’s according to recent global survey
Pay more attention to customers and, oddly enough, your market results look healthier. Sounds obvious enough but there’s nothing like having bit of data to back up the intuitive connection
With more business being done online, recent Australian survey should inspire short pause over the email delete command. It showed Australian companies could be breaching Archives and Corporations law by
How to put some solid investment puff into New Zealand’s economic sails? That was the subject of last month’s two-day “Investment Regatta” conference in Auckland. And if the level of
More evidence that good people practices are also profitable comes from recent PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) survey of human resource leaders in Australia and New Zealand. They were questioned as part of
From balance sheets to board behaviour and brand messages – the emphasis on the benefits of triple bottom line reporting has undergone shift. That’s the thesis being explored at the
Companies that have put themselves on waste diet get chance to strut their stuff this year at the Packaging Council of New Zealand’s biennial awards for excellence in environmentally acceptable
