This issue of Exec Update is grab-bag of insights on everything from the number of women in New Zealand management (shrinking), to science (how can we improve what we do as nation?), and New Zealand’s green growth (lots of ideas but are we pushing hard enough?). Read more »
New Zealand once led the world for the number of women in senior management roles in business. Now we’re dropping back in the pack, according to latest research from Grant Thornton. Read more »
The McGuiness Institute, an independent think-tank previously known as the Sustainable Future Institute, has released report outlining strategy map for government-funded science. Read more »
The Green Growth Advisory Group (GGAG) has made 26 policy recommendations to the Government in its newly-released report “Greening New Zealand’s Growth”. Read more »
A new study shows Australian-born multinationals are investing more in holding onto their key people than foreign-owned firms in an effort to fight the brain drain. Read more »
Close to one in 10 New Zealand employees changed roles inside their own company in the past three months, but pay across the market barely moved, new data shows.
The World Economic Forum recently released its annual Top 10 Emerging Technologies Report 2026, identifying what it sees as breakthroughs poised to reshape economies and societies within the next three to five years.
Under pressure, leaders default to their dominant behavioural style. The leaders who know what that is, and what it gives, or costs, the people around them, are the ones who lead well when it counts, writes Tony Gardner.
