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One to Watch: Josef Roberts, Business leaders series
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One to Watch: Josef Roberts, Business leaders series

Josef Roberts, CEO, Burger Fuel on Culture. Burger Fuel CEO Josef Roberts believes culture is key to staff retention in his company. He elaborates on ways businesses can create the right culture to ensure employees remain engaged and motivated. “I’m a strong believer in creating a culture that people will actually contribute to and feel relaxed enough, confident enough and interested enough to keep coming to work,” Josef says. “We have a high retention of staff and people in the business and I think it’s because we’ve created a culture that’s fun and enjoyable.”

One to Watch: Dwayne Crombie, Business leaders series
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One to Watch: Dwayne Crombie, Business leaders series

Bupa CEO Dwayne Crombie sees leadership as a way of empowering staff to take ownership of the decision-making process. “I try not to run everything. I try not to be the centre-point for a lot of the day-to-day decisions,” Dwayne says. “I actually tolerate people doing things that wouldn’t be my first choice, so, it doesn’t have to be my way.” Dwayne says staff should ascertain ownership in their roles rather than defer the decision-making process to top management.

One to Watch: Diane Hurford, Business leaders series
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One to Watch: Diane Hurford, Business leaders series

Diane Hurford, creator and CEO, Brolly Sheets on Planning. When it comes to business, planning is the key for Brolly Sheets founder Diane Hurford. Diane shares with us the map that will drive her multi-million dollar sales goal in the next five years. “I’m a great believer in plans, so I know where I want the journey to go, I know in five years’ time where I want to be. I call it my Steve Austin plan and it’s a $6m plan,” Diane says.

Bollard keeps OCR on hold
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Bollard keeps OCR on hold

Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard kept the official cash rate unchanged at 2.5 per cent and pushed out the track for future rate hikes as Europe's instability weighs heavily on global growth.

Steve Wozniak: Schools and how we are taught to think
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Steve Wozniak: Schools and how we are taught to think

Apple is now the world’s most valuable company and nzherald.co.nz heard first hand from the co-founder of the company at his Auckland speaking event 'The Apple Story - Disruptive Innovation, Inspiration and Entrepreneurial Wizardry'. This video shows his views on 'The problem with schools and how we are taught to think'.

Google unveils smarter search engine
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Google unveils smarter search engine

Google has begun making its search engine smarter, in a major upgrade that looks beyond query words to figure out what people are actually seeking online. Get an under the hood look at the next frontier in Search, from the team at Google behind the technology. The Knowledge Graph is a huge collection of the people, places and things in the world and how they're connected to one another. Video courtesy Google.

Dunedin stadium reveals $1.9m loss
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Dunedin stadium reveals $1.9m loss

The size of the financial hole occupied by Dunedin Venues Management Ltd - the company tasked with running the Forsyth Barr Stadium - has been confirmed. Figures released showed the company had lost $1.9 million in the first six months of the 2011-12 financial year.