New Zealand Management back issues from February 2006:
BOOKCASE
Feb 01, 2006; ... The Next Sustainability Wave: Building Boardroom Buy-In By: Bob Willard Publisher: New Society Publishers Price: $35 Human beings are a strangely perverse species when it comes topostponing, ignoring or just straight refusing to do stuff we know isfor our own ...
PROFILE ; Mr SustainAbility - John Elkington peddles his case Most days John Elkington cycles to work at his central city London office.
Feb 03, 2006; ... The man who coined terms like "green consumer" and "triple bottomline" is not, however, an impractical environmentalist or idealisticsocial engineer. After more than 30 years at the head ofSustainAbility he still believes business can and must deliver theanswers to the world's pressing ...
ETHICS ; Investing in Ethics - Future patterns and pathways The momentum for business to invest in ethical practices and sustainability is likely to increase in 2006 as investors and other stakeholders continue to focus on these issues.
Feb 03, 2006; ... Progressive businesses are recognising this development andlearning from leaders how to capitalise on the benefits ofsustainable enterprise. Two leaders in the field of ethicalinvestment and business in Australia share their views ondevelopments in Australia and New ...
EVENTS
Feb 03, 2006 ... Feb start Team leaders skills: complete series. NZIM Auckland. ContactNicola Kendrick 0-9-303 9103, enquiries@nzim.co.nz or www.nzim.co.nz Feb 1-2 Effective recruitment & induction of staff. The University ofAuckland Business School, Auckland City. Contact 0800 800 ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS ; FEBRUARY 2006, Vol 53 No 1
Feb 03, 2006 ... Cover Story NO PAIN NO GAIN: MANUFACTURING FACES A NEW FUTURE St Jude must be licking his lips. The patron saint of lost causesshould be packing in the overtime as local manufacturers strive tosurvive in an environment increasingly dominated by low-costeconomies such as China ...
EDITOR'S LETTER ; Resolve
Feb 03, 2006; ... What a difference a few months can make. In the last issue ofManagement magazine our listing of the nation's top 200 businessesranked by revenue was a major cause for celebration. A trawl throughthe previous year's financial results had provided conclusive proofthat New Zealand had been ...
UPFRONT; Learning to fly
Feb 03, 2006 ... The great thing about trapezes is that you can't hold two at thesame time - you have to let one go and in between you're not holdingonto anything. That's when you discover who you are, says GailBlanke. The New York based executive coach, motivational speaker andauthor was talking ...
UPFRONT; Taking greater care with change
Feb 03, 2006 ... Despite skill shortages and low unemployment, companies are stilllaying people off. But how they do it is changing, as companiesrealise the value of a common sense, human approach to change. As some of the country's largest employers continued torestructure through 2005, many ...
UPFRONT; The talent challenge
Feb 03, 2006 ... A slowing economy may help ease last year's skills shortage crisisbut at least one HR specialist reckons the dearth of talent is set tobecome a big issue for business this year. The shortage has reached a critical level and promises to be amajor concern for CEOs and CIOs in the ...
UPFRONT; Job hotspots
Feb 03, 2006 ... Accounting professionals and IT project managers are likely to bein demand and the 2006 employment market will be "as hot as ever",according to the Hays Quarterly ...
UPFRONT; Charting blue oceans
Feb 03, 2006 ... The innovative push needed to stay one step ahead in competitivemarkets is something Zeacom business development manager Ken Brickleyknows all about. But now he reckons the company's found a whole new"blue ocean" of opportunity. It all has to do with a birthday present, a ...
UPFRONT; NZ less green?
Feb 03, 2006 ... New Zealand's top companies are lagging behind their internationalcounterparts when it comes to reporting sustainability performance inenvironmental, health and safety systems. That's according to a recent study by BT Financial which notesthat companies which don't report on these ...
Managers on the move
Feb 03, 2006 ... Gillian Wratt There are probably not many CEOs in New Zealand who can claim tohave paid more than 40 visits to one of this country's most farflungoutposts - Antarctica. But for Gillian Wratt, who takes over nextmonth as CEO of the Cawthron Institute, trips to the Southern ...
UPFRONT; Negativity rules
Feb 03, 2006 ... New Zealand's business sector is trudging into 2006 with anoutlook that hasn't registered such a high degree of gloom since1986. The NZIER quarterly survey of business opinion for the lastquarter of 2005 found the percentage of pessimists had doubled sinceits previous survey - up ...
POLITICS ;Clark's Big Test
Feb 03, 2006; ... This is the year the Government has to recover its reputation forcompetence. If it fails, it is probably dog meat at the nextelection. The Government limped into Christmas with two balls and chainsaround its ankles. Television New Zealand was in disarray because ofits ...
TECH NOUS ; New Model Ready for Delivery
Feb 03, 2006; ... You may recall last month's column referring to the 'Live Era'software phenomenon being introduced by Microsoft. Well, as 2006 getsunder way, such is the potential of the on-demand delivery method forbusiness software, this whole sector deserves further investigation -particularly for ...
SUSTAINABILITY ; Direct Hits
Feb 03, 2006; ... At the end of last year I joined the New Zealand delegation inMontreal to engage with world leaders, business groups and NGOs fromaround the world at the 11th Climate Change Conference, the firstfollowing the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. Given the sub-zerotemperature you could be ...
NZIM ; 2006 Outlook - Bright, busy and bullish Last year was an outstanding year for the New Zealand Institute of Management and 2006 is looking even better with new opportunities on offer for aspiring managers.
Feb 03, 2006 ... New governance arrangements at national board level have brought agreater shared vision to directors, management and staff throughoutNew Zealand, according to New Zealand Institute of Managementnational chief executive David Chapman. Looking back on 2005 andahead at plans for 2006, ...
NZIM ; The Daily Drucker
Feb 03, 2006 ... Spirit of an Organisation "It's the abilities, not the disabilities, that count." Two sayings sum up the "spirit of an organ-isation". One is theinscription on Andrew Carnegie's tombstone: Here lies a man Who knew how to enlist In his ...
THE MANAGEMENT INTERVIEW ; Stephen Macliver - Manager in law He trained as a lawyer but Bell Gully CEO Stephen Macliver has spent most of his career advising law firms around the world about organisational management and strategy. As he tells Vicki Jayne, it's an environment where management by dictate just doesn't work.
Feb 03, 2006; ... Heading Bell Gully is described as the plum job on New Zealand'slegal scene. It's a homegrown firm that not only boasts 160 yearsworth of local history but, according to its new CEO, an "enviable"reputation offshore. And Stephen Macliver should know. As chair of the ...
STRATEGY; John Seely Brown - Contours for a new business strategy
Feb 03, 2006; ... Part scientist and part strategist, John Seely Brown's views aredistinguished by a broad view of the human context in whichtechnologies operate and a healthy scepticism about whether changealways represents genuine progress. He talks here about howaccelerated capability building as a new ...
THE BUSINESS OF BOATING ; Putting Wind in Export Sales - Building a flagship for brand New Zealand Built on both traditional skills and leading-edge innovation, New Zealand's boating industry could be seen as a flagship for the Kiwi business spirit and manufacturing know-how. Can it hold its course as a brand leader in competitive offshore markets? Vicki Jayne goes fishing for clues.
Feb 03, 2006; ... Glance briefly south-westward from Auckland Harbour Bridge and thespiky forest of masts rocking gently at berth in one of the southernhemisphere's biggest marinas is just one hint of how big the businessof boating is in New Zealand. Basecamp for upwards of 1800 boats - many ...
EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT ; Executive Muscle - Tone up or waste away Investing in development and training has always been a win-win proposition for employers and key employees, but with New Zealand claiming the lowest unemployment rate among OECD countries, employers need to fully accept this proposition or risk becoming a casualty in the war for talent.
Feb 03, 2006; ... Consider this. In 2006, personal career development may be moreimportant to a key executive than money - and that's a good reason toget serious about career development programmes, say human resourceand people management experts. Last year Denis Orme, chief executiveof the Insurance ...
EXECUTIVE HEALTH ; Keep the Ball Rolling - Could executive healthcare lose its bounce? If the New Zealand economy takes the hard landing this year that some economists are now predicting, what effect would that have on attitudes towards maintaining the health of key executives? In a less buoyant economy, will executive health be seen as a 'nice to have' but not an essential component of business?
Feb 03, 2006; ... There's nothing like a gloomy economic survey to put the dampenerson corporate healthcare. Or so has proved the case in the past. Solatest news from NZIER announcing that business confidence hasplunged to a 20-year low, must be cause for alarm in an industry thathelps provide the ...
BUSINESS EXCELLENCE ; Built to Last - How to fill performance gaps How do you build a strong performance ethic into your organisational culture? Vicki Jayne talks to two executives who think they have the answer.
Feb 03, 2006; ... The word "improvement" is right there in the company name - butbuilding that ethic into corporate culture is not just a matter ofsemantics. For Livestock Improvement Corporation, it's become a wayof life. In December, the company finished off a record year forprofitability by ...
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE; Board Status - Director survey launched What exactly is the state of organisational governance in New Zealand? The largest and most authoritative nationwide survey of its kind is about to try and find out.
Feb 03, 2006; ... Do New Zealand companies and other organisations have easy accessto high-quality directors? Are our boards populated by directors withsufficient competence to do the job? And, do Kiwi directors believethey are effective? These are three of the key questions an impartial and ...
EVENTS
Feb 20, 2006 ... Feb 20-21 12th Women in management and business conference. Duxton Hotel,Wellington. Contact michael@conferenz.co.nz Feb 20-21 11th annual executive assistant and PA conference. Heritage Hotel,Auckland. Contact info@brightstar.co.nz Feb 21-22 ...