The New Zealand economy is growing strongly and is forecast to do so for the immediate term. The effects of the Global Financial Crises are dissipating and businesses are returning to their pre-recession health. The baby boomer generation is looking to make that move towards retirement and businesses are starting to change hands. Sometimes...
A car that spawned a deluge of playground jokes in Britain may be gaining kudos in Marlborough motoring circles.
Burgeoning rallying driver David Taylor said he isn't keen to put the brakes on his motoring career after a crash in the unlikeliest of speed machines - a humble Lada. The Russian-made car proved a laughing point in Britain...
Olivia Giles was working as a lawyer in Edinburgh when, in 2002, she caught meningococcal septicaemia. On what was an ordinary day she began to feel ill at work. She thought it was a very bad cold, but it was much more severe. The symptoms were in fact blood poisoning. Olivia’s condition deteriorated rapidly. Her flesh was dying and her...
Positive Potential has been active in Blenheim, Nelson, Christchurch & Wellington recently. Activity has ranged from Advisory Board work through to Strategic support and Capability Investment Resource assessments for Ministry of Social Development funded Organisations. Mentoring and Executive Coaching engagements, plus delivery of...
It is so easy to believe the things we do, and the way we do them, are "good enough". In a competitive and fast moving world sometimes "good enough" is just not enough. It can breed complacency and allow others to take business from you. Once that starts to gain momentum it can be very difficult to recover from. Businesses that look to the...
Strategy
...“Positive Potential worked with our Board on developing our strategy. By clarifying and distilling inputs it enabled us to come up with a revitalised way forward”
Alison Quesnel - Executive Director, Natural Products New Zealand