May 1, 2007

Cover Story Private Equity – Public interest Why all the recent hype about private equity? What does it mean for the New Zealand economy? And should more managers get used

No, don’t use the figures from Statistics New Zealand when measuring agriculture’s contribution to GDP, your columnist was urged by the executive director of Meat and Wool New Zealand’s Economic

One of the joys of management is its constant sense of renewal and reinvigoration. Even after 52 years of reporting on this stuff, here on the magazine we are constantly

April 2 & 3 Opportunities in broadband & next generation networks. Hyatt Regency Auckland. Contact Conferenz. Ph: 0-9-912 3616, [email protected] or www.conferenz.co.nz April 2-3 How to improve your business writing

Dilbert jokes underline serious business issues in the mind of Gary Cokins. For if Cokins had his way business would be lot less muddly than it typically is. Cokins is

While it is possible to easily recognise leader, it is much harder to articulate what leader is. They are, of course, someone with clarity in their vision and passionate commitment

Information workers would comply with document profiling, storage and retention policies if the requirements were made easier. So say more than half of the New Zealand managers surveyed recently by

Ten years on, vision articulated by world-leading CEOs has in many ways been realised. International consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) has been checking in with global CEOs since 1998 when their collective

Do you like John Key’s new suit? Have you seen what George Bush has been wearing lately? Thought not. So it’s sad state of affairs when the only letter to

John Nicol: CEO, Acron Capability Engineering, Ottawa, Canada What prompted you to seek work out of New Zealand? While I was peace keeping with the New Zealand Army, I met

Forty-five percent of the respondents to recent survey on NZIM’s Northern Region mentoring programme were not sure about mentoring. Why? The survey showed clearly that lack of information is the

Last issue in our article “Counting the Carbs” we mistakenly described Cardlink as car leasing company that had developed an accreditation programme. It is in the fleet management business and

The Department of Labour has launched new online tool to help employers and employees calculate leave entitlements. It aims to take out some of the confusion around arrangements for staff

Reg Birchfield FNZIM has been elected to the national board of the New Zealand Insitute of Management. Birchfield is group managing director of Auckland-based 3media Group, publishers of Management magazine.

When is spending an investment? When it builds up capital stock and generates return. Can the Government think that way? It can in the narrow sense of how the super

The New Zealand Institute’s latest discussion paper “So far yet so close: connecting New Zealand to the global economy” provides timely reality check of New Zealand’s global competitive positioning and