New Zealand’s media has been awash with inspiring tales of business owners defying the pandemic through reinvention – by navigating and pivoting across alert levels, and emerging wiser and better
A short collection of Covid-crushing insights to help businesses navigate the ‘new normal’. By editor Glenn Baker. When you consider how this insidious virus has wreaked havoc on the economy,
What is the key to enduring business partnerships? What are the warning signs that things aren’t right? NZBusiness went in search of some stellar partnerships and some expert advice.
A leader’s role is to understand the different personalities of their employees in order to bring out the best in them. It all begins with respect, writes Richard Conway. I
If your business has been experiencing sluggish sales growth in recent times, then perhaps these two suggestions from Logan Wedgwood can get things moving again. If you have ever failed,
Creating a customer-centric culture that’s great for both your customers and your people will improve your business’s performance significantly. Mat Wylie explains how. In 2019 we interviewed some of Australasia’s
Go Wild directors Francesca Bonventre and Kaai Silbery are the driving force behind a distinctive new freeze dried honey product from the Chatham Islands that has a promising export future. Remoteness has its benefits. For the Chatham Islands, 800 kilometres off the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island, the benefits for honey producers are a disease-free environment and endemic native plants for the bees – all of which results in a unique red-coloured Chatham Islands honey. Now, that honey is being transformed into a freeze dried product that chefs everywhere are getting excited about. Go Wild Chatham Island Freeze Dried Honey has a remarkable back-story and a bright future. It is in a class of its own. The brainchild
Eighty4 Recruitment’s Mark Fisher is about to make a nine-day working fortnight permanent for his staff. He has advice for businesses looking to do the same. It’s well documented that most workers are only truly productive for a few hours each day. The much-publicised move by Perpetual Guardian to a four-day-week, with its 230 staff being paid for five, actually saw productivity rise. But if you think a shortened work week is something only the big boys can offer, think again. Mark Fisher, owner of Eighty4 Recruitment, introduced a trial Freedom Friday or nine-day fortnight for his 11 staff about six months ago and, when NZBusiness spoke to him in March, was just about ready to make it permanent. Half
Hastings-based Barry and James Rosenberg are the father and son team behind 65 Not Out – a subscription-based online resource to help people transition from business to retirement. Not surprisingly, feedback has been very positive. As manager of a lifestyle village in Hawke’s Bay, James Rosenberg had observed how quickly some people can deteriorate mentally and physically after they end their working careers and take up retirement. His father, Barry Rosenberg, a chartered accountant entering retirement age, has held a career-long passion for family business and farm succession and exit. He too understands this phase of a person’s life that can be “grossly uncertain, unless something is planned for them to retire to”. Father and son were on the same
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