Ngarimu Alan Huiroa Blair of Ngati Whatua appears to have been predestined to be a leader.

This column highlights a "blinding flash of insight" business, cultural and sports leaders have experienced, and how this changed their lives forever.

Mike Pero's name still synonymous with the enterprise he founded.

People of a certain age and experience could well cut a career as an executive contractor - although the gig might not suit everyone.

"Cultural intelligence" will be more important than a high IQ when it comes to hiring staff in 10 years, says high profile lawyer Mai Chen.

Dairy giant announces improved profit just days after increased the number of jobs it was cutting to 750.

Henri Eliot gives his top ten tips on how company directors can improve public speaking.

Can any human being really conceive of what it's like to serve a 10-year prison sentence?

Collectivist beliefs may be holding back Maori economic success, three economists say.

According to Census data, people in some jobs are more likely than people in others to marry someone in the same field.

In March I received my permit to work in the US and my Green Card is imminent so I swung into job-searching mode in April.

Auction clearance rates have dropped and attendance rates are down as soaring prices flatten out.

An Auckland ferry crash that left more than a dozen people wounded was allegedly down to faulty technology and inadequately-trained staff.

Legal high godfather Matt Bowden's company must pay a former employee more than $85,000.

A chef who was accused of inappropriately touching a pizza cook in a Canterbury restaurant was fired after several staff members allegedly refused to work with him.

No news was not good news when the US Federal Reserve left rates on hold last week.

Cabinet Minister Paula Bennett has played to the political gallery by jettisoning the $88 million Chinese bid to buy Lochinver Station because it did not provide enough new jobs.

The performance of the Australian and New Zealand economies has an important impact on a number of areas, particularly the labour sector and our red hot housing market.

Policymakers inevitably get things wrong from time to time, writes Brian Fallow. But if they are to learn from their mistakes, they first have to acknowledge that they are mistakes.

Are you interested in getting full and involved participation from your people? Instead of telling someone to do a task, ask them how they think it should be done.

Our economy grew - but less than expected in the second quarter of the year, as agriculture and mining recovered.

Officials might investigate calls from the parents of a young forestry worker killed when a tree fell on him to overhaul the way workplace incidents are investigated.

Maori fulltime workers feel they have better work-life balance than workers in six other cultures globally, a new study has found.

Huge spillage at craft brewery cost $80,000 and described as a "crime of passion".

New Zealand must avoid putting off high net-worth investors from coming here, says Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce.

The parents of a young forestry worker killed when a tree fell on him are calling for an overhaul in the way workplace incidents are investigated.

The forestry contractor acquitted of the manslaughter of a young worker crushed to death by a falling tree still faces sentence for breaching health and safety legislation.

Money from wealthy migrants is going to waste - sitting in back accounts and bonds, not helping New Zealand grow as it could.