May 29, 2007

Michael Bennetts: CEO integrated supply and trading, eastern hemisphere, BP Singapore What prompted you to seek work out of New Zealand? I was fortunate enough to work for company like

New Zealand may boast some high profile women leaders – but the reality is that fewer females are making it to senior management ranks. Vicki Jayne asks: why the slippage? And what’s the business fallout?

There is an assumption, which is built into our education system, that teachers create learning and that what the learner learns is directly related to what is being taught. Sorry,

“All my life as musician, I have striven for perfection. It has always eluded me. I surely had an obligation to make one more try.” I have never forgotten these

TO: GeoffCC: Steve, Kim, Murray, Catherine, Jen FROM: Bob SUBJECT: Project Management Hi Geoff I just wondered with all the new projects kicking off, whether it would be good idea

After the 2005 election Helen Clark swiftly stitched deal with Winston Peters, the man who had spurned her in 1996. It kept her in office but it was like swallowing

Why is it that migrants and foreign students who obtain business and management qualifications in New Zealand often know the theory but have difficulty applying it when they hit the workplace? The New Zealand Institute of Management is tackling the problem.

To get the best bang for their market research buck, CEOs need to understand its potential and its limits. Jonathan Dodd explains how to ask the smart questions.

The New Zealand Institute of Management and Management magazine have joined forces to launch new nation-wide business management game. The NZIM Business Challenge is business simulation in which teams of

Oddly – that’s question senior management teams themselves don’t have much of grip on. And it doesn’t help that those new to the top team role lack any formal induction

There is growing understanding of the contribution and importance of design and an increasing appreciation for innovation as practice – but New Zealand is “years behind”. That’s according to Darrel

Kelvin Wickham Fonterra Co-operative Group has appointed Wickham as managing director, Fonterra GlobalTrade. He replaces John Shaskey who leaves the cooperative at the end of this month. Wickham’s dairy industry

New Zealand has lifted its global competitiveness game gaining two places to rank 19th on the just released IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook. The improvement in New Zealand’s ranking also closes

Time was you wouldn’t have put organisation and spirituality in the same sentence unless you were talking about the Catholic church. But things have changed – we’re moving into an

Q I have been voted in as chair for our monthly operations meetings. It is important that they run well as they have big impact on the company. It is

How do managers who probably advanced up the corporate ladder on their business acumen cope with leadership role that is increasingly about “soul”? Exploring when and how management became so

The knack of divining economic and cultural signals gives exporters healthy head start. So it’s little surprise that record numbers of exporters turned out for New Zealand New Thinking export

The first step toward kinder environment for exporters is an immediate cut in interest rates but… this needs to go hand in hand with the establishment of new economic order.

Imagine hosting your clients’ grandparents for the day. Each of them there for the express purpose of checking your performance against their own internal scorecard. That’s just one of the balancing acts Lynda Reid has to perform as principal of St Cuthbert’s College.

It could be described as a poster child for the export potential of New Zealand’s biotech sector – except ICPbio is already a teenager and well launched on its big OE. What’s driving its growth?

New behaviours. Heightened confidence. Specific skills and learnings. A new mindset. A bunch of useful contacts for the career ahead. What do executives expect to get from ploughing their valuable time, dollars and mental resources into an executive education programme? And what do those programme providers see as their most precious offerings?

It’s easy to get so bogged down in the day-to-day deluge of ‘do now’ activities, that the future is something glimpsed only in fleeting and unfocused way somewhere beyond today’s

Business lobby leaders who persistently rail against “big government” and excessive government spending can brandish reports from two influential international organisations to support their politicking. Business Roundtable executive director Roger

Succession planning is a lot more than the latest HR buzz phrase – it is increasingly business critical. So why doesn’t it get the attention it deserves?

Organisations that exclude management from contributing fully to strategic decision making could well be institutionalising poor performance, warns James Lockhart in the third of his series of articles on governance and management.

COVER STORY Finding the best fit – How to plan for succession Succession planning is lot more than the latest HR buzz phrase – it is increasingly business critical. So

• Self-employed business consultant • Bachelor of business (AUT) • 2007 participant in Leadership NZ course • Mother to Jacob & Caitlin How would you describe the New Zealand identity?