By: Michael E Raynor Publisher: Currency Doubleday Price: $49.95 Reviewer: Reg Birchfield Strategies that sometimes produce remarkable success can also lead to spectacular failure. paradox pure and simple, according to
Lawyers, once a slightly awkward fit in companies, are taking on more responsibilities and assuming top corporate positions. And why not? They’re intelligent people adept at problem-solving and cut-through thinking. Some executives, though, have doubts, wondering whether it’s good for business. Nonetheless the march of the lawyers is unmistakably growing louder. Eugene Bingham investigates.
The pay gap between New Zealand and Australian directors is narrowing, according to the latest Sheffield Director Remuneration Survey, but there is still a long way to go and New Zealand’s lower rates mean we risk missing out on attracting the best local talent according to Sheffield’s Sherry Maier. Ellen Read takes a look at the survey results and talks to Maier about her findings.
As the business environment becomes more and more regulated, it’s perhaps unsurprising that increasing numbers of lawyers are turning up in senior management and governance positions. Or did it happen
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?
One’s a lawyer, the other an accountant but both could be said to have property in their business blood. Vicki Jayne talks to the chair and CEO of Strategic Finance.
Bob Edlin examines why public value, and listening to the public, needs to be central to the public servant governance model.
Henry Kissinger famously said “a crisis ignored is crisis ensured” – statement that encapsulates the essence of reputation management. When most of us think about reputation management we generally think
The Labour-led Government is committed to the long-term hold of all State Owned Enterprises. That position appears to be held by all of the parties represented in Parliament with the
