May 1, 2005

REGIONAL SURVEY Managing the Dichotomy – Bay of Plenty’s primary challenge

The population influx boosted by coastal living, a mild climate, plenty of available land, plus access to the country’s largest volume and Australasia’s most efficient port: these are just some of the drivers that have underpinned the Bay of Plenty region’s recent growth. But while this presents huge opportunities it’s also the region’s single biggest hurdle.

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UPFRONT Testing times

1 What will the Business Herald write about now Fonterra’s stopped trying to buy National Foods? 2 If Pope John Paul 11 had lived bit longer couldn’t he have interceded

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UPFRONT Shift it

Regardless of whether they plan to steer, slide or just plain shove their organisation into new thinking space, most executives know they can use transformation and innovation as pathway to

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UPFRONT Plain Sailing

For those who think port is simply fortified dessert wine, Sir Peter Blake’s sailing nous may be bit of mystery. His leadership skills, however, translate readily to the world of

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UPFRONT Penny in the pig

If we’re to get real about being an ownership society, we need to set up savings schemes for all New Zealanders. That’s the gist of the fourth and final paper

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UPFRONT On target

Less can be more. That’s the message from Michael Pitfield, director of international business at Henley Management College. In New Zealand recently as part of his regular liaison with colleagues

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UPFRONT MIND expanding NZIM

The New Zealand Institute of Management has been appointed as an agent for the global training resources company MIND RESOURCES. The move will take NZIM into new segment of the

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UPFRONT Heroic Efforts

When not rescuing citizens from burning buildings, fighting crims or righting other wrongs, go-ahead business bods can go for the gongs at this year’s Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the

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UPFRONT Have Your Say

For the June issue of Management magazine Jim Robinson is examining the concept of the chief executive as brand in their own right. Just how much power does the CEO

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UPFRONT AAMO fired up

The Asian Association of Management Organisations (AAMO) is looking to lift its international standing on the back of an increasing global interest in organisational leadership and better management practices. The

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TECH NOUS Raising the Bar

Technology is wonderful thing. First it creates problem – then it solves it. Broadband is classic example. First we had the telephone, and then along came the internet which took

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POLITICS Labouring a Point

Trust has special meaning in politics. Remember that when the electioneering starts and you are invited to trust candidates, leaders and parties. This became important in the 1990s because trust

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Managers on the move

Flora Gilkison Wintec’s high ranking as an academic institution plus the promise of dynamic future was the big drawcard for Flora Gilkison when considering her next career move. The former

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IN COMMITTEE Flagging the Future

Advertising agencies used to talk about running an idea up the flag pole to see if anybody salutes. Recently website bank-rolled by Wellington corporate high-flier has been running up whole

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HUMAN RESOURCES Words From the Ys – Leading the demanding dot-coms

Competitive advantage will increasingly accrue to those organisations that best motivate and engage their staff. In the first of two articles looking at the changing landscape of management, Phil Kerslake examines the evolving needs, expectations and characteristics of people to be managed in the future. What makes generation Y tick? How and why do they differ from their predecessors? Most importantly, how might they best be engaged?

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EDUCATION & TRAINING Making to Measure – Executive training’s new mantra

Executive education used to be a bit like the model T Ford. You could have any type of MBA you wanted so long as it was the classic tool-kit concept originally conceived to equip engineers or lawyers with a generic basket of management skills. Changing business and recruitment dynamics means executive trainers are no longer interested in churning out vanilla flavoured white-collar executives. Mark Story investigates how training providers are responding to executive and corporate demand.

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EDITOR’S LETTER Staying Power

Times of transition are serious business. Handled well, they provide an opportunity for organisations to stop the clock, examine what has gone before and assess what is appropriate and best

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ECONOMICS Cullenary Skills

ACT leader Rodney Hide, spluttering his outrage at the Government’s financial reporting in mid-March, claimed Finance Minister Michael Cullen was trying to hide Labour’s unprecedented operating surpluses in an attempt

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