In this book, you'll receive over 200 questions that New Zealand business owners ask to navigate their business journey. Whether you’re starting a new business, or are already at the helm of a fourth generation kiwi business rarity, the one thing we can all agree to, is the 21st century is ­shaping up to be a whole lot different to the 20th century. By asking better quality questions and you'll get better quality answers in the face of the unprecedented change that is about to affect us. The ‘stack ‘em high, one size fits all’ factory model is ­disappearing in front of our eyes, just as a diaspora of interest groups are popping up with needs and desires ready to be fulfilled by businesses like yours. That change in how we arrange ourselves as a society is ­flowing through to how businesses address those groups, and that is impacting our marketing, our manufacturing and everything else in between. You can fight to protect the ­status quo (and ultimately lose) or engage in the most important kiwi business revolution of our time.

100% Kiwi Business is an inspiring guide for New Zealanders growing their business or starting a new one. Packed with intriguing and illuminating interviews, the book explains: how Olympic medal winner and Sileni Estate CEO Nigel Avery, practised the psychology for success. how tech startup founder Jenene Crossan pivoted Flossie and unlocked new business value. how serial entrepreneur Steve Nathan, sold his New Zealand payroll business to MYOB and the negotiation tactics he banked on. how Mitre 10 CEO Graeme Ricketts turned a family business into a Kiwi household name. Learn what's working for Kiwi business owners, the questions to ask, and unlock your own success. What Interviewing 100 Business Leaders Was Like Personally interviewing 100 business people was always going to be a challenge. The first interview was released on 12th January 2016 and the 100th and final episode released on 18th June 2017, taking 523 days. It felt like doing a real-life MBA degree, so this book is all of those insights concentrated into an eight-hour read. What I Learned Along The Way To be a business hero and lead a tribe of people through the unknown, it takes courage, determination, and passion and those are the character attributes of the people that came through from the questions and answers on the podcast. While every moment of courage shared was different and the length of determination varied, the passion was unwavering. How I Want You To Succeed Through This Book This book will inspire you, it will encourage you, it will tempt you, it will teach you, it will help you and it will bring out the best version of your business self to navigate your own business journey.

The Kiwi Branding Edge book explores how New Zealand businesses are creating an edge with the New Zealand Made Kiwi trademark. This practical guide shows you how to create a market origin advantage for the products you make through the lens of 70+ businesses who are already doing so.

Published a decade ago, forged from the lessons of the Global Financial Crisis 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 New Zealand 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 businesses like those of New Zealand. The book introduces the business basics that haven't changed (business models and financial drivers, leadership, team building, strategy and planning), while exploring how globalization 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 New Zealanders running our owner-operated businesses. This book is a primer of business school wisdom to lead your business past the immense changes of today's economy and into the future.

Champions do extra. They sweep the sheds. They follow the spearhead. They keep a blue head. They are good ancestors. In Legacy, best-selling author James Kerr goes deep into the heart of the world's most successful sporting team, the legendary All Blacks of New Zealand, to reveal 15 powerful and practical lessons for leadership and business. Legacy is a unique, inspiring handbook for leaders in all fields, and asks: What are the secrets of success - sustained success? How do you achieve world-class standards, day after day, week after week, year after year? How do you handle pressure? How do you train to win at the highest level? What do you leave behind you after you're gone? What will be your legacy?

Changing Gears is the essential guide to growing your Kiwi business. Rooted in the success stories of real New Zealand companies, the book explains in plain language the key business principles that will enable you to drive growth, profitability and market penetration. Easy to read and illustrated throughout with diagrams and exercises, Changing Gears encourages readers to apply the insights to their own enterprises. Changing Gears gives Kiwi business owners and managers answers to their most critical questions: How do you identify business models and financial drivers? How do you become a leader who can see the future for your business? How do you build a team, share information, and delegate effectively so that you are not waking up at 3 a.m.? How do you develop resilience so that you can get things done without burning out? And how do you weigh options for the future of the business and pursue growth opportunities to scale up your company? This book celebrates the vision, determination, and tenacity of New Zealand's owner-managers and gives them the tools to do their business better. From start-up entrepreneurs to established family businesses, from farms to factories, Changing Gears provides New Zealand owner-managers with the keys to growth. Drawing on their own business careers, international research and experience coaching owner-managers in the successful ICEHOUSE programme, the authors have developed this essential guide to leading and growing a business in New Zealand.