Think Tank
Our openminded outlook on business, challenging and questioning current convention, allows us to build on our experience to create ideas that will power tomorrow; subsequently sharing these ideas means we can build tomorrow today.
Forever a GM, Never the CEO?
General Manager seems like an anachronistic term in our ‘era of hyperspecialization’1, but New Zealand seems adamant on retaining the term, although, perhaps in a confusing and ironic manner, often for more specialised roles – e.g....
The CEO Strengths that Move Mountains
Last month, the 2019 finalists of the New Zealand Top 200 Awards were announced. Accompanying this announcement, a senior executive of the awarding company gave his thoughts on what it is he feels makes a great CEO. Whilst his...
Where 'Leaders' Fail, 'Enablers' Prevail
There are a lot of opinions on the nature of the best sorts of business managers and what their attributes are, but there is one hypermodern school of thought worth paying particular attention to in the form of enabler leadership....
The Politics of Friends
I’ve spoken about the pains of job anxiety when it comes to thinking about moving to new pastures or coming to the end of tenure in recent article 'Job Depression': Overcoming the Negative Spiral, but it seems prevalent to now...
All Economies Lead South; Or Do They?
If you peruse any major newspaper of late, you’re almost guaranteed to find an article on the four tenets of the zeitgeist: Boris versus Brexit, the next chapter in the Trump saga, the war on protesters and the storm warnings for a...
Open Discrimination; Where Diversity Conversations...
Diversity is quite possibly the most widespread pursuit across workplaces, news outlets, job interviews, university campuses, political spheres, sports teams and many other big staples of life. In today’s world, it feels that,...