archiveChief Administrative Officer Insider

Jono and Kirsty Rowe are rising entrepreneurs and influencers in the New Zealand business landscape. Their innovative relationship-based approach to business has been key to their success. In just a short time, Jono and Kirsty have gone from fledgling entrepreneurs to running a host of successful businesses, achieving financial freedom...

Dealing with the high volume of challenges in today's interconnected life can be overwhelming. It’s likely you know at least a few people who can’t seem to manage multiple problems at the same time. For them, a single problem is more than enough – and always seems to be of...

The Board of Directors of CEOWORLD magazine announce the appointment of its newest External Advisory Board (EAB) Member, Lance Mortlock, Ernst & Young Canada Managing Partner, Energy, who officially joined the board in November. As the managing partner for the energy market segment, Lance leads EY Canada’s oil and gas,...

The real nature of business is growing. Either you’re growing or you’re going backwards. Growth is one of the more necessary components of success in business. It’s not necessarily that you only grow by premises, but perhaps, more importantly, your business growth can be various measures of such as in...

The key to transformational leadership is based upon satisfying basic needs and meeting higher desires though inspiring followers to provide newer solutions and create a better workplace. Transformational leaders actually employ charismatic behaviors and motivate subordinates to provide better outcomes, more profitability, and satisfying careers. These leaders focus on the...

When it comes to human resources many business leaders have had a mixed experience at best. It is not often that HR and business performance are used in the same sentence and it would be safe to say that many CEO’s and business owners see little value in what HR...

One of the hardest parts to being a leader is freshness. It’s not a term we typically use when talking about effective leadership, but it’s always there. We tend to focus instead on the many forms it takes, the freshness of ideas, for example. It’s there in other forms too,...

It never ceases to amaze me how many entrepreneurs I speak to who are dreaming of making a positive difference to the world, but never seem to get off of the starting line in making it happen. When I ask them why they havn’t done anything substantial to get their...

If you’re reading this you may well be thinking, “do I really need to hire an HR person?” Many CEO’s and executives will recount their poor experiences with HR leaders and HR as a profession generally. It is often with significant reluctance and resignation that companies embark on the process...

And it most definitely begins with people we give the right to “Leadership”.  There are 2 absolutes about the “Leadership” role:  1) Their experience and skills match the role (for instance if people are put into wrong roles & higher grades without prior experience & prior skills that the role...