How not to Commit Business Suicide
Coming in at under 180 pages, Gavin Waring’s guide covering business structure, debt, tax and other issues SMEs (small and medium sized...
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Bullet-Proof Your Business Now
How do we protect our business when times get tough?” This is the most common question Andrew Griffiths is asked nowadays. With 25...
The Shower, the Course and the Thought Bubble
This cute little book is written by London born and Australian based business trainer and human development organiser, Rum Charles....
Revolutionise the way you work
This book has a very apt title – because it does have the power to change forever the way you work. In Revolutionise the Way...
Mega Thinking
If you decided to travel to another country and you had the choice of going first class or economy class, of course you would...
When a Billion Chinese Jump
When Jonathan Watts was a small boy growing up in England he used to fret about what would happen to the world if everyone in China...
Changing Gears
After taking a hard, honest look at your business, what keeps you awake at night?Aimed at those who own and manage their business in...
From Crisis to Confidence
Research indicates we are prepared to spend more time and effort planning our annual holidays and other lifestyle activities than...
Deliver
At its Auckland launch, Mayor John Banks described Deliver as a pocket book resource, proving the point by...
What’s keeping you awake at night?
Problems affect individuals, companies, organisations and countries alike, and David Bogan knows all about them. Thirty years plus...
101 Ways to Sell More of Anything to Anyone
When asked “What is the best way to make a business more profitable?” Andrew Griffiths responds “Learn how to...
Get Rich with Twitter
It all began with the simple question – What are you doing?” evolving to, “What’s happening?” Twitter, Dennis Prince explains,...
The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs
This book makes me wish some of my former bosses had been more like Steve Jobs and less like Pooh Bear-without-the-cuddly-charm. It unpicks...
Who wants to be a Billionaire?
Paul Barry, who has been writing about the Packer family for more than 15 years, combines observation with well-honed investigative...
The Jimmy Choo Story
Jimmy Choo is a household name to followers of luxury fashion. The exclusive London shoe brand hit the limelight when...
Drowning in Oil
I'm betting not too many NZBusiness readers head up mega-massive international oil companies, so it’s fair to grizzle...
A Fistful of Rice
In many levels, this is a beautiful book. It wraps around a beautiful idea: that not only is it possible to truly help people help...
Golden Arches under Southern Skies
This book will strike a loud chord with anyone who has ever tried to get their business to run before it can walk and never taken no for an...
Making your customers feel they are missing out
I have just spent an hour organising flights for a rather complicated trip zigzagging across the Tasman and around Eastern...
Don’t mess with our ACC
For the past six to eight weeks the spin machine has been working overtime and spewing out half truths and misinformation about ACC....
Are you investment ready?
There are many steps or hurdles to overcome before your business may be attractive to an investor, and consequently achieve the...
The customer loyalty myth
This behaviour is not only counter intuitive it goes against the old 80:20 marketing rule – spend 80 percent of your marketing...
Stable and Sustainable? I think Not
On April 17th the NBR commented on the just released OECD report and some of the harsh facts that it includes. We’re in...
‘The Consequence–Free Society’?
Regular readers of this column will be familiar with a central theme I repeatedly mention; the benign business environment from an...
Half full or half empty?
I am not one for astrology or predictions, especially when it comes to the economic outlook, other than to say I have learned that...
The case of the missing origami cranes?
Good communication with staff is fundamental to achieving the obligations of good faith which underpins the Employment Relations Act...
Tell them once, tell them twice?
Managers who deliberately repeat themselves are more effective at getting things done, according to research by Professors Tsedal Neeley of...
Do your customers trust you?
An Annual Monitor (Edelman PR’s “Trust Barometer”) conducted each year in the US reports that fewer than half of...
Enhancing employer rights with an employment agreement
Are employment agreements all just about paperwork? No, definitely not; they define the rights of both parties to the employment...
A look through the LTC regime
On 15 October the Government released the much anticipated legislation in relation to the treatment of Qualifying Companies...