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<i>Gill South</i>: Change by encouraging ideas - not by giving orders
Staff frequently come up with the answers you need, says expert with an international track record.
<i>Deborah Hill Cone</i>: Dream of success keeps on slipping away
Deborah Hill Cone: As NZ loses its place in the international league tables, business as usual just isn't an option.
<i>Stock Takes</i>: MD's shock resignation knocks PGG Wrightson shares
Shareholders are upset...
<i>Media</i>: Jackson's bitter truths win media war
Sir Peter Jackson and his business interests seem to have won the media battle over The Hobbit.
<i>Sean D'Souza</i>: Five reasons why newsletters fail to deliver
Five reasons? There may be 7000 reasons why your newsletter may not get a response. And the key lies in the word "response". When someone says, "I am getting no response"
<i>Mark Thomas</i>: In business as in rugby Obey the rules or risk being yellow-carded
Sport has a lot to teach us about the importance of knowing the laws of the game, and following them.
<i>Liam Dann</i>: Feel the excitement as aussie rises
Waiting for that magic moment when one Australian dollar can buy one US dollar has assumed a symbolic importance.
<i>Media</i>: Insult to injury for Indians
First it was Paul Henry. Now it's Michael Laws. These are cruel times for shock jocks and the people who love them, writes John Drinnan.
<i>Fran O'Sullivan</i>: Bit rich for Goff to find voice now
Goff has spent much of the past week playing political football with two of New Zealand's major trading relationships.
<i>Bryan Gould:</i> Three years on looking good, but still feeling the pinch
It is surely beginning to dawn on us, nearly three years after our recession began, that anything approaching a full recovery is still a long way off.
<i>Anthony Doesburg</i>: Everyone in line to share in the digital dividend
Viewers, broadcasters and government will reap rewards of switch from analogue.
<i>Gill South</i>: A dash of silliness goes a long way towards a happier workplace
It doesn't have to be wacky, but a bit of fun at work is therapeutic for staff, and for the business.
<i>Deborah Hill Cone</i>: When life's a gamble, why worry
Forget agonising over what to do - there's more luck to success or failure than we'd like to admit.
<i>Stock Takes:</i> Crumbling takeover
Tower's move to bid for Fidelity Life Assurance without securing support from Fidelity's major shareholders has left some wondering whether it has some underlying plan which has yet to be revealed.
<i>Richard Fyers:</i> Overseas buyers a blessing to struggling farms
Contrary to public opinion, there is no queue of foreigners to buy farmland in New Zealand.