TEAR Fund (www.tearfund.org.nz) hosted business luncheon at the Auckland Maritime Museum last month where Allie Mooney from Personality Plus presented the four personality types. The business audience learned how speed
I believe very strongly that community organisations can excel in their leadership and management capabilities. There is problem in defining community and non-government organisations (NGOs). The term voluntary sector doesn’t
The Discipline of Management “If you can’t replicate something because you don’t understand it, then it really hasn’t been invented; it’s only been done.” When I published The Practice of
TO: Steve, Murray FROM: Bob SUBJECT: Congratulations Hi Steve and Murray I just wanted to say you guys have done great job on the new website. It’s looking fantastic. Bob
We used to talk about “managing” the economy, as if it was project. Then we talked about the economy as organic, self-balancing and free as the breeze. But managed or
Richard Manaton, Elizabeth Higgs Woolworths has announced appointments to its Progressive Enterprises leadership team in New Zealand: Manaton, previously GM marketing, is now GM strategic planning; Higgs takes over as
Research, both local and global, consistently suggests that employers are sceptical about what the tertiary education sector delivers. Most of them believe “in-house training” delivers better management and employee education results.
What prompted you to seek work out of New Zealand? I’d both lived and worked overseas earlier in my career but this move was prompted by call from the senior
My comments in your June article on savings are out of context and imply that I do not believe there is savings issue in New Zealand. My views on this
I was slightly startled to see my views being cited by Mark Weldon in your last issue (“Saving Grace – Investing for the Future”). Here is the full quote: Financial
The North Island dominates New Zealand in terms of population and economics but this year’s Sir Peter Blake Trust Emerging Leader Awards, announced in Wellington on July 28th, show the Mainland is making a strong bid for due recognition. Six emerging leaders were named – three have South Island links, either by birth, location or both.
Women executives who break through the glass ceiling could end up on the edge of glass cliff – after being given hospital pass to poor performing company. The “glass cliff”
Whatever your views on personality profiling, left-side right-side brain theories or introvert/extrovert, thinker/doer etc, there is no avoiding the fact that people think and communicate in different ways. And whether
Human capital risk, such as skills shortages, succession planning and the loss of key personnel are the biggest threats to businesses globally; and the issues surrounding climate change the most
Clyde Prestowitz was in New Zealand last month as part of the Action Asia conference. Management talked to him about the progress of globalisation, the trade debate and the implications of both.
Apple’s iPhone hasn’t been released here (and no date is set) but Management spent day test-driving one – and we are impressed. You could easily waste lot of time tinkering
The Government is about to announce its policy for an emissions trading regime. Do business decision makers want carbon trading? The Government is considering an emissions trading system, under which
As personal investment adviser who champions business ethics the first question I am usually asked is whether there is cost to being ethical. The evidence is that you can do
An ageing global population will force governments worldwide to revisit the services they provide and rethink how they will continue to fund public services, according to “Serving the Ageing Citizen”,
In the time it takes you to read this story you and your company may have been judged and dismissed dozens of times.
Global terrorism threats, carbon footprints, work-life balance and executive health are just some of the things to consider when New Zealanders embark on business travel. Despite these, we are moving about the globe more than ever. Steve Hart takes a look at the new challenges, opportunities and services available for international travel and finds out about changing destinations.
It’s all about perspective. Or rather, changing perspective which is accompanied by fade from pure black and white to an alarming array of shades of grey. And it’s really quite
Pollution is an example of “an externality”, the term applied by economists to the costs imposed on society generally by producer’s activities. One way of trying to correct these externalities
It was once characterised as the great workplace divide – managers for the company; unions for the workers. A clash of ideologies in opposing power structures. Now companies encourage employee engagement and our biggest unions champion ‘partnership’. So how does the relationship look today? Are unions still relevant? Is it still them and us?
• New Zealand product marketing manager for entertainment & devices at Microsoft • Represented New Zealand in sports aerobics with her triplet sisters and secured 10 national titles • 25
I have been interviewing people for new position in my team. I have identified number of short-listed people and then asked the rest of the team to meet with them
