Just how capable are New Zealand managers? How do our chief executives and managing directors rate their organisation’s current management position? A new executive performance index reveals the facts.
Four years ago Solid Energy, once State Coal, was technically insolvent. Now it’s chalking up impressive annual profits, lifting production by up to 25 percent a year and giving environmentalists a run for their money. The turnaround is the work of fast burning chief executive Don Elder. What are his leadership secrets?
Technology never ceases to amaze me – just when you think one particular technology is on its way out, it ‘morphs’ into several new ones, which quickly gain new footholds
Small businesses have been busy “keeping our economy afloat”. That’s according to National Bank chief economist John McDermott commenting on figures published in the Bank’s Small Business Monitor last month.
Arie de Geus, former Shell executive and author of the best seller, The Living Company, is one of the few management practitioners to really succeed in the academic world. MIT’s Peter Senge credits him with originating the concept of the “learning organisation”. De Geus argues that all corporate activities are grounded in two hypotheses: “The company is a living being; and the decisions for action made by this living being result from a learning process.” In a rare interview, Arie de Geus talks to Des Dearlove about the need to change how we understand companies – from profit-making machines to living communities.
Labour parties face special challenge which conservative parties are usually spared: how to stay in government and keep alive the reason for wanting to be there. British Labour Prime Minister
How often do we hear the claim from business of “skills shortage”? I am personally aware of this problem in my (manufacturing) industry. Regrettably I have been obliged to recruit
With 2004 looming, we decided to take look at the sites that seem to offer the best in economic forecasting and key economic data. There is, perhaps not surprisingly, wide
Recent research seems to dismiss the long-held belief that an MBA is the key to unlocking your future and life as a high-profile corporate executive with an equally high-income salary package to match.
Got particular business problem on your mind? There’s fair chance you’re not the first to ever face it – which is one of the reasons why case studies have become
I read with interest the article by Graham Kenny on the balanced scorecard (BSC) (‘The Balanced Scorecard: Why it isn’t working’, Management March 2003, now also available online at www.management.co.nz).
It is difficult to remember a time when the daily media have not lamented the calibre of our political leadership, locally and internationally, or the business press has not found our corporate leadership sorely wanting. But how do leaders in these two sectors compare? We asked Ian Grant, author of the just released book on New Zealand’s political leaders, Public Lives, to tell us what he found.
It may have been around since the 1930s but human resource management might finally be hitting its straps and demanding a more permanent place at management’s top table. But what are the issues and the changes facing HR managers? What does the future hold for HR management?
The gap between the content of the chief executive’s remuneration package and that of other employees is widening. The tensions this state of affairs is causing are hardening. That at
Writing about the “invisible hand” in recent column in the Financial Times, economics professor John Kay disabused readers of commonly held view about Adam Smith. No, he did not argue
Managers. Are they leaders and visionaries who carry the weight of corporate performance on caring and capable shoulders? Or are they fat cats who justify their existence and over-the-top salaries
How wise is conventional wisdom? Back in 1883 the tremendously influential scientific philosopher Thomas Henry Huxley explained to an International Fisheries Exhibition in London why the world should never worry
New Zealand businesses will increasingly depend on an older workforce and need to plan for that, according to report released at last month’s Age Advantage Forum in Christchurch. “Our success
