Just picked up my copy of last month’s Management magazine and enjoyed reading your piece “Leadership: The seven deadly sins”. Good points covered in clear and interesting way, including layout.
Management magazine’s listing of New Zealand’s largest organisations includes New Zealand subsidiaries and local branches of overseas companies that pay tax in New Zealand, producer boards, cooperatives, local authority trading
The Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change, published at the end of October, is comprehensive analysis of the economics of climate change. Commissioned by the British Chancellor and authored
COMMUNICATE AND TEST ASSUMPTIONS The theory of the business is discipline The theory of the business must be known and understood throughout the organisation. This is easy in an organisation’s
Margaret Thatcher once famously said she intended to “go on and on and on”. She didn’t. Before the voters could throw her out, her party did. Having renewed their leadership,
John Palmer Nelson businessman Palmer, recently appointed as director on the board of Solid Energy New Zealand, is to take over as chair on the retirement of Tim Saunders at
The New Zealand Institute of Management’s latest national salary survey, conducted by specialist publishers Brookers, contains some surprises. It suggests that there has been some slippage in senior executive salaries over the past year.
In the time it takes for child born today to get through university, New Zealand’s population will be showing considerable signs of aging. Population projections suggest that the proportion of
When Rod Carr joined Jade Software Corporation as managing director three years ago, the company was facing what he describes as some “interesting” business issues. It had healthy 25-year business
Good news for the tourism industry – New Zealand ranks as the top country for both natural beauty and outdoor activities. That’s according to the second annual Country Brand Index
Companies can construct beautiful rewards programmes for employees – but if they ignore line management input, they’re missing the most important part of the equation. Companies need to focus less
• Director of Short Courses at The University of Auckland Business School. • Recently graduated from Excelerator’s 18 month Leadership Development Programme. • Active member of number of business associations.
The University of Auckland Business School’s recent research report “Barriers to entry for the older worker” (see the “latest news” section at www.nzim.co.nz) is damning document, and one more enlightened
Ireland has dropped corporate tax rates from 40 percent in 1993 to 12.5 percent today – the lowest of any developed country and has been enjoying growth rates of up
Workplace discrimination is one of the biggest issues for older New Zealanders in the workplace, and this has been reinforced in recent international survey – the Kelly Global Workforce Index.
A co-worker responds angrily when anyone disagrees with him; another buries her boss in piles of irrelevant information whenever she’s asked question; husband retreats into silence whenever he gets into
If this year’s Top 200 Awards are anything to go by, successful companies don’t give two hoots about talk of slightly less buoyant economic conditions. They’re too busy forging their
The Stern Review on climate change and the economic costs of continued inaction painted grim picture: rising sea levels, floods, droughts, up to 200 million migrants being displaced, and an
New Zealand, as small country on the outer fringe of the globe, faces special challenges in improving or even maintaining our relative standard of living. Our small domestic economy cannot
Cover Story : DIVING NOT SKIVING: WHEN CEO APPOINTMENTS TAKE TIME Top CEO skills are going begging in New Zealand. Why is the employment market for our top executives narrowing
Cover Story : OUR TOP 200 COMPANIES – BUILT TO GROW Which companies defied the past year’s pessimistic economic outlook to demonstrate solid, even stellar, performance? Who is helping to
