Mental illness affects one in five New Zealanders in any given year, says the Mental Health Foundation, and many of them are employees. The foundation has put together comprehensive advice
Iwi trusts and assets are among the fastest growing and most dynamic sectors of the New Zealand economy. Wiwini Hakaria is helping Maori directors and trustees master the rules of the governance game.
Governance expert and author Doug Matheson has so far identified five key lessons from the GFC and its ensuing recession as he researches the changing state of governance for a new book. He shared some of his findings at a recent Institute of Directors presentation.
Director and board evaluation involves board members undertaking a constructive but critical review of their own performance, identifying strengths, weaknesses and then implementing plans for further professional development.
Global engineering consultancy Beca Group can’t tick all the boxes on a contemporary scale of responsible governance criteria, but few organisations have treated their people and the environment as consistently well for as long as it has. Reg Birchfield talked with Richard Aitken and Keith Reynolds about Beca’s approach to governing responsibly.
Foreign policy is trade, Sir Robert Muldoon said 35 years ago. Murray McCully and John Key have in effect been saying the same since they took office. Actually, trade is
The New Zealand Institute of Management’s new national chairman Gary Sturgess knows what he wants to accomplish during his tenure at the top. NZIM is, he says, “more relevant today” than it has ever been.
Sarah Robb O’Hagan, in charge of global brand management for PepsiCo’s Gatorade sports drink, says the secret to success is to know who you are, and who you are not.
Iwi trusts and assets are among the fastest growing and most dynamic sectors of the New Zealand economy. Wiwini Hakaria is helping Maori directors and trustees master the rules of the governance game.
World enterprise, according to growing body of research, is facing leadership crisis. Businesses are becoming too complex, too competitive and yes, too confused about the future to govern and manage
A small team of New Zealand and Australian medical specialists and entrepreneurs have won two prestigious British health services awards for a software package they have developed to save patients from hospital medical misadventure. Reg Birchfield talked with UK-based Kiwi Sam Hollander, a director of the venture.
Commodity prices will surge by over 180 percent in the next 20 years because of climate change, population growth and burgeoning middle classes, report on global food supply by Oxfam
After decade of painstaking research, team from Harvard Business School, London School of Economics, McKinsey & Company, and Stanford has systematically surveyed global management and concluded that American firms are,
World enterprise is facing a leadership shortage of crisis proportions. The problem, increasingly obvious over the past decade, is worsening more rapidly than expected. It is acute in New Zealand and looks set to become even more so. Writer-at-large Reg Birchfield reports on the implications of alarming new research released to NZ Management for this special leadership issue.
Ninety percent of privately owned businesses are expecting positive growth in the next year, according to the 2011 ANZ Privately-Owned Business Barometer report, but the survey also shows the resilience
Despite continuous growth in research and development (R&D) spending, many senior leaders remain deeply concerned about their organisation’s ability to innovate. New research by Booz & Company points to an
Executives with healthcare, infrastructure, financial services and green energy expertise will be in big demand to power the global economy’s growth over the next 20 years, according to recruitment company
Encouraging New Zealand managers to “globalise” in order to improve the international growth potential of their businesses is the aim of pilot programme being developed by The University of Auckland
Governance expert and author Doug Matheson has so far identified five key lessons from the GFC and its ensuing recession as he researches the changing state of governance for a new book. He shared some of his findings at a recent Institute of Directors presentation.
Director and board evaluation involves board members undertaking a constructive but critical review of their own performance, identifying strengths, weaknesses and then implementing plans for further professional development. Director evaluation is essential for good governance says Iain McCormick.
Merger and acquisition activity in New Zealand is sitting at around 20 percent of its pre-global financial crisis level according to Chas Cable of Deloitte. But it is starting to
With business loans hard to get as banks continue to be risk-averse, invoice financing is starting to gain ground as the funding method of choice for firms in growth mode.
A short stint in front of prime time television sees us peppered with public health messages. By turn we’re urged to exercise, eat well, drink less, look after our mental
Simon Bennett Recruitment company The Madison Group has appointed Simon Bennett as chief executive officer and aims to surpass its current double digit growth, to break $100 million turnover in
There has never been greater need for leadership. In an economically sputtering post-GFC world we face some of the greatest challenges mankind has had to confront. convergence of environmental, social
The Government made no secret it was borrowing more than it needed in the year to 30 June 2011. Early in May, Prime Minister John Key told Parliament the Government’s
