Gearing Up
Leading your Kiwi Business into the Future
Published on 9. July 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-86940-902-9 (ISBN)
Description
Published a decade ago and reprinted multiple times, the authors' Changing Gears: How to Take Your Kiwi Business from the Kitchen Table to the Board Room was the first book that enabled Kiwi-sized firms to integrate business-school wisdom into their thinking.
Gearing Up: Leading Your Kiwi Business into the Future is a completely revised and updated primer for owner-manager New Zealand businesses. The book introduces the business basics that haven't changed (business models and financial drivers, leadership, team building, strategy and planning), while exploring how globalisation and digital transformations are challenging what we know about doing business.
Throughout, the authors focus - through real examples - on the opportunities and challenges faced by the Kiwi men and women running our owner-operated businesses.
Gearing Up: Leading Your Kiwi Business into the Future is a completely revised and updated primer for owner-manager New Zealand businesses. The book introduces the business basics that haven't changed (business models and financial drivers, leadership, team building, strategy and planning), while exploring how globalisation and digital transformations are challenging what we know about doing business.
Throughout, the authors focus - through real examples - on the opportunities and challenges faced by the Kiwi men and women running our owner-operated businesses.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for the authors' prior book Changing Gears: 'Changing Gears is an inspirational and practical read. . . . a thoughtful, practical guide to tackling the management issues of how to grow, how to lead and how to improve management and leadership performance - Kiwi-style.', Management Magazine. 'I'm in business so I was gripped by this volume. . . . local examples and the level-headed Kiwi advice make this a better-than-usual business book.'. Vincent Heeringa, IdealogMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Auckland
New Zealand
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86940-902-9 (9781869409029)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
07/2020
Auckland University Press
€23.49
Available for download
Persons
Darl Kolb, David Irving, Deborah Shepherd and Christine Woods come from extensive business backgrounds and are now based in the Business School of the University of Auckland, where they coach owner-managers in the very successful The Icehouse, a collaborative learning environment and growth centre for New Zealand businesses.
Content
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
Prologue: Leading your Kiwi business into the future viii
1 We know you, and you matter 1
2 Grow what? Where you are and how you got there 16
3 Earning the right to grow 29
4 Strategy: Deciding how to compete 50
5 Building the capability of your people 62
6 Owner-managers: The reluctant leaders 77
7 Let's talk about you 91
8 Where to go when you don't know . . . 108
9 Imagining the future 126
Epilogue: Where to from here? 139
Recommended reading 142
About the authors 145
Notes 147
Acknowledgements vii
Prologue: Leading your Kiwi business into the future viii
1 We know you, and you matter 1
2 Grow what? Where you are and how you got there 16
3 Earning the right to grow 29
4 Strategy: Deciding how to compete 50
5 Building the capability of your people 62
6 Owner-managers: The reluctant leaders 77
7 Let's talk about you 91
8 Where to go when you don't know . . . 108
9 Imagining the future 126
Epilogue: Where to from here? 139
Recommended reading 142
About the authors 145
Notes 147