Someone sent me this blog a while ago on looking for opportunities in the market. I found it interesting so I wanted to share it in full for you to read now, and then I'll add my 2c at the end: A typical startup journey is to create one product
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Leadership, culture and teamwork tips from Spark CEO, Jolie Hodson
Zac: It's very exciting for me to continue my chat with Jolie Hodson, CEO of Spark (see the first part HERE ). She’s the CEO of one of the biggest companies in New Zealand, so we're very lucky to have her with us today. We are going to chat through
Spark CEO Jolie Hodson on innovation, succeeding in business and her biggest career lessons
Zac: It's very exciting for me to have a chat to Jolie Hodson, CEO of Spark. Jolie and I used to work together many moons ago in our first job back at Deloitte’s, back in 1992. She left Deloitte’s at the end of 2000 and she’s now the CEO of Spark,
PwC New Zealand CEO Mark Averill on culture, strategy, performance and ‘just 2 things’
PwC New Zealand's CEO and senior partner Mark Averill joined Business Changing's high-performance group of business owners in July for a bit of a Q&A session. Below are some of the main takeaways from his talk, that you might be able to consider
Zac talks to Westpac CFO about tips and advice for SMEs
During lockdown, Zac caught up with Westpac’s CFO — Ian Hankin — on their podcast to help NZ businesses, called Back to Business. The theme of the talk was “Getting off on the right foot” and subjects included growing market share, advice re
Ex Zespri CEO on dangerous assumptions…
During lockdown, I convinced Tony Marks to join some of our Business Changing coaching clients on a Zoom call, to share some tales from his incredible career. Tony was the sales and marketing GM of Air New Zealand (on the exec team) for more than 10
Zac on NZ Herald’s Pivot Pod with Frances Cook
Zac was asked by Frances Cook, NZ Herald journalist and host of the Pivot Pod, to join her on a podcast to talk about the state of business and what SMEs can be doing proactively to negate the effects of Covid on their business. You can listen to the
Ex Zespri CEO on business planning…
When we spoke to former sales and marketing GM of Air New Zealand Tony Marks in mid April, he shared with us his predictions for Air NZ — he made this back in mid April 2020 and you might be surprised how accurate he was (clue: much of it looks to be