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Published a decade ago 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 Kiwi-sized
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 New Zealand
businesses. The book introduces the business basics that haven't
changed (business models and financial drivers, leadership, team
building, strategy and planning), while exploring how globalisation
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 Kiwi
men and women running our owner-operated businesses.
Two children, on holiday in Crete, are exploring the site of the
palace of Knossos, home of the legendary Minotaur. The area has
recently been hit by small earth tremors, but their visit takes
place on a typically hot and sunny day. There is nothing to disturb
the calm. Except that some of the passageways they revisit have
changed. Flickering torches, a curious thread which runs along the
wall, footsteps and an ominous shadow looming in the darkness are
just the beginning of exciting and frightening encounters in the
ancient ruins.
Joe and Hannah find a box of buttons in their barn. Mrs Underhill,
the old lady who collected them over many years, tells the children
that every button tells a story. The Dorset button is a tale of
smuggling on the south coast and the Navajo button tells of an
encounter with a mountain lion in Arizona. The Icelandic button
involves some children in a desperate race against time to warn
their neighbours who are in danger of being buried under icy slurry
from a volcanic eruption. There is a scrimshaw button from whaling
days in New England and a Tudor button involved in an encounter
with a poacher. In the end the children have their own adventure
attempting to rescue a young deer trapped in a storm. Their own
button collection begins.
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