The golden rules of employee share ownership
Steve Alexander looks at the merits and pitfalls of employees taking up a shareholding in a company.
Steve Alexander looks at the merits and pitfalls of employees taking up a shareholding in a company.
Flick Electric Co. CEO Steve O’Connor has helped disruptive ideas become great businesses for more than 20 years, including five as CEO of Wellington’s business incubator Creative HQ.
Winning companies never disappoint their customers, because they deliver 100 percent of their promise 100 percent of the time. Dr Mike Ashby explains. I came across a great idea in
From sand and aggregate to maritime operations, export quality oysters, and international freight forwarding – welcome to the diverse business dynasty of Callum and Jan McCallum.
Is your business taking advantage of cloud computing? Maybe it’s time to bring down those final barriers and make the switch. You’ll never look back.
Steve Alexander looks at the merits and pitfalls of employees taking up a shareholding in a company.
Flick Electric Co. CEO Steve O’Connor has helped disruptive ideas become great businesses for more than 20 years, including five as CEO of Wellington’s business incubator Creative HQ.
Winning companies never disappoint their customers, because they deliver 100 percent of their promise 100 percent of the time. Dr Mike Ashby explains. I came across a great idea in the book What Really Works, by William Joyce, Nitin Nohria and Bruce Roberson. They studied thousands of public companies to understand what made them ‘winners’ over a long period of time, and how they were different from ‘losers’ (they had a reasonably robust kind of methodology behind how these were classified). Their conclusion was that there are four primary management practices that companies must excel in as well as any two of the four secondary management practices (4+2). A company consistently following the 4+2 practices had a 90 percent chance of
From sand and aggregate to maritime operations, export quality oysters, and international freight forwarding – welcome to the diverse business dynasty of Callum and Jan McCallum.
Is your business taking advantage of cloud computing? Maybe it’s time to bring down those final barriers and make the switch. You’ll never look back.
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