Mark Cairns, CEO of the Port of Tauranga and the Deloitte/Management magazine Top 200 Awards CEO of the Year for 2012, commented on the three-speed economy (Christchurch, Auckland and the rest).
One of NZ’s newest Knights, Ngai Tahu’s Mark Solomon highlighted the benefits for business of partnering with iwi/Maori that had been identified by the Ministerial Taskforce on the Maori Economy.
Other leaders, from Orcon and now Kordia New Zealand’s CEO Scott Bartlett, to Turners & Growers CEO Geoff Hipkins, cite propositions from second submarine internet cable to unified currency with Australia, as possible drivers of the quantum leap in performance we need to start realising the country’s potential.
And in other stories: Find out why The Economist executive editor and author Dr Daniel Franklin says New Zealand will be good place to be in 2050; spot the trends for 2013; discover the top traits Australasian employees want in their managers; and in the NZ Institute of Management’s just released (and published in full in the new issue of NZ Management) 2013 New Zealand Management Capability Index, learn why we should be worried about New Zealand managers.
