In this issue our cover story is Project Management Success. Leadership is about getting the job done through people and bringing out the best in these people.
A diverse panel of New Zealand’s successful – and busy – managers and leaders share what works for them.
Management thinkers everywhere are calling for a management renaissance. The New Zealand Institute of Management agrees that changes in management thinking, practice and education are overdue. Meanwhile, NZIM is going through its own renaissance. Reg Birchfield reports.
Building a proactive workforce is every manager’s dream as it can boost a company’s performance, but a new study has found if job satisfaction is low those ‘agents of change’ quickly lose that can-do attitude.
Despite the millions, sometimes billions, of dollars spent on change management programmes, most fail.
The success rate of major change initiatives is just 54 percent according to a 2013 Strategy&/Katzenbach Centre survey of global senior executives on culture and change management.
A four-year political term might benefit New Zealand’s small and medium size enterprises, according to new pre-election research by Massey University finance lecturer Dr Chris Malone.
COVER STORY
The battle for talent
