May 4, 2007

The team I manage isn’t cohesive enough. I spend lot of my time on issues between team members rather than with what we are really here for. It’s not helping

• Howard Gardner • Harvard Business School Press • $49.95 In the years ahead societies will not survive let alone thrive, unless as citizens we respect and cultivate the particular

• Dale Hunter with Stephen Thorpe, Hamish Brown & Anne Bailey • Random House New Zealand • $36.99 Thirteen years after she published her first edition of this groundbreaking work,

• Paul Goldsmith and Michael Bassett • David Ling Publishing • $49.99 The Myers is co-authored by Michael Bassett, respected historian-politician turned new-right zealot and Paul Goldsmith, best known for

May start NZIM Certificate in Management, Level 4. NZIM Auckland. Contact Aisling O’Shea 0-9-303 9104, [email protected] or www.nzim.co.nz May 1-2 Making sense of business data. Auckland. The University of Auckland

Jens Madsen Chief operating officer of Ports of Auckland since February 2006, Madsen brings extensive knowledge of the international shipping and logistics industry to his new role as the company’s

Take away information technology and most businesses come to a grinding halt. Why, then, do some managers still treat IT as a department? Management magazine investigates the importance of aligning IT and business strategies.

Senior managers are changing. Improving their personal performance and the performance of the people they lead will, by 2020, be part of their core agenda, says NZIM national chief executive David Chapman.

People are a resource and not just a cost