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Ten years after its birth, SkyCity Entertainment is still carefully balancing the need to run a sound business with close scrutiny from community and regulatory watchdogs. Managing director Evan Davies sees the organisation’s pacts with its various communities as key.
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Hot-wired from ages past to work collectively, many of today’s employees have a growing sense of separation and fragmentation. It’s time to change.
The productivity debate has snapped back into the headlines – this time with an interesting twist.
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