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John Allen
Chief Executive of New Zealand Post
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The Future of New Zealand
There is a real opportunity to leverage the people capability, landscape, and heritage of country to create something remarkable - something the world will look to and learn from.
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Dr. Bruce Bagley
Professor and Co-Director, Auckland cancer Society Research Centre, The University of Auckland.
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Scientific Revolution and Small Countries
It is in creative science that New Zealand can compete effectively with larger countries, and it is up to us to generate the right conditions.
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Dr. Sue Bagshaw and Dave Marra
Directors of 198 Youth Centre, Christchurch
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Leadership in Community Health
198 is a "one stop shop" where young people canhave their health needs met - and includes emplyment opportunties, arts programmes and other activiites for youth.
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Michael Barnett
Michael Barnett is Chief Executive of the Auckland Regional Chamber of Commerce.
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“Simply the best” Worldwide in Terms of Lifestyle and Values
What matters in my vision of New Zealand 2020 is the spirit in which we do things. We feel that, in some sense, the future is ours.
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Louise Belcher
Manager, Family Service Centre (Great Potentials), Papakura
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Creating a Family Vision
A positive family vision can be a guiding light toward a healthy family. It enables the family to work together toward a common future.
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Dr. Seddon Bennington
Chief Executive of The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
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Exploiting Our Strengths - from the Past, for our Future
Our spectacular, diverse landscape, our bicultural legacy and understanding, and an increasingly complex weave of cultural threads, offer strengths, an identity, and a resourceful attitude which we must nurture as leaders and tap as a nation.
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John Blackham
CEO Xsol Limited
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Leadership – A Changing Vision
The Internet gramatically speeds up the rate of change in business and gives the leader a great opportunity to communication with the workers.
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Steve Bonnici
Managing Director of Urgent Couriers
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Sustainable Growth and Development
For New Zealand and New Zealanders to be successful we need to get the big picture right.
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Dr. Klaus Bosselmann
Associate Professor of Law, University of Auckland
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Three Awareness Steps Towards a Sustainable New Zealand
The three steps are 1) understanding why we are unsustainable, 2) the impact of Modernity, and moving to a "post"modern project.
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Rick Boven
Management Consultant and Company Director
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Choosing Our Future
Choosing between positive economic and environmental outcomes is becoming the great challenge of the age.
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Jo Brosnahan
CEO of the Auckland Regional Council
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Community Leadership
If we can grow strong collaborative servant leaders, strong communities will automatically follow.
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Dick Brunton
Chairman Colmar Brunton
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Passion and Purpose in Business
Dick respectfully challenges the state of organisational leadership in NZ.
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Paul G. Buchanan
Sr. Lecturer in Politics and Latin American Studies at the University of Auckland
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Virtu, Fortuna and New Zealand’s Leadership in Difficult Times
Using Machiavelii's notions of virtu and fortuna, Buchanan explores the tensions between principled and expedient leadership in New Zealand in the current world moment.
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The Honorable Chris Carter
NZ Minister of Conservation, Local Government, Ethic Affairs and Building Issues
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Our Greatest Assets Are Our Land and Our People
It is my view that the experience of living in New Zealand is one of the greatest assets we have as a nation, and we must protect it, now and in the future.
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Dame Sylvia Cartwright
Dame Silvia Cartwright PCNZM, DBE
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A New Vision of Peace
With the last century of significant technical, medical and scientific advances we still face much to be done in creating a world of peace and well being.
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Dr. Wayne Cartwright
Professor of Strategic Management, University of Auckland
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New Zealand's Leadership is Misaligned with the Nation's Future
The current leadership of New Zealand, the key elements of which are corporate and governmental (central, regional, and local) and are seriously misaligned with the perspectives, styles, and capabilities that are required for New Zealand’s future.
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Tony Caughey
Chief Executive of Minter Ellison Rudd Watts
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How Prosperous Do We Want to Be?
Caughey sites four points that are required to improve the economic well being of NZ and enable us to attract our children to live in New Zealand.
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Dennis Chapman
Engineer and Entrepreneur, Founder of Switchtec
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Creating a Silicon Valley of Educational Technology in New Zealand
The vision I am working on in partnership with a number of others is to create a Silicon Valley of Educational Technology here in New Zealand.
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Carl Chenery
Youth Leader - Mechanical Engineer
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"The Little Country That Could" - Designing Sustainable Aotearoa New Zealand With Some Hindsight
NZ has an unprecedented opportunity to create 'Sustainable NZ Inc.'
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Peter Conway
NZCTU Economist
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Leadership For Sustainable Development
My vision is for a society which is dynamic, exciting and full of opportunity for everyone.
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Dr. John Craig
Professor of Environmental Management, University of Auckland.
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Prosperous New Zealand: Healthy People in a Flourishing Natural World
Ourvision needs to include both the necessity of sustaining a living earth and retaining the values that give us identity as a nation and belonging in our communities.
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Margaret Crozier
Executive Director of Greenpeace
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We Need a New Vision of Leadership
We can be the small smart country that believes people and nature matter
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Christian Dahmen
Consultant and human resources specialist
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The Future of New Zealand and the Critical Role of Global Leadership
How we can we move us from being just an outstanding “beauty” in many tourists eyes to become a country that leads the thinking on “How to live life best?”
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Carl Davidson
Director, No Doubt Research Limited
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A Beginner's Guide To Catching the Knowledge Wave
My vision for New Zealand is a simple one – it is of a country that 'works smarter
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Lindsey Dawson
Writer, journalist, founding editor of three leading NZ women's magazines
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Time Now For the Wise Woman
There are more ways for a 21st century woman to develop her talents than has ever been possible before. Maybe it’s time to welcome back the wise woman.
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Dr. Anne de Bruin
Professor of Econmicis, Director of Research Development in Massey University's College of Business
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New Forms of Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Employment Growth
New collective forms of entrepreneurship that both complement and supplement the entrepreneurship of individuals are necessary to avoid high costs of unemployment.
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Dame Susan Devoy
New Zealand Squash Champion
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The Power of Commitment in Pursuit of a Vision
We need vision and leadership to change from a sedentary nation to a fit, healthy nation.
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Dr. Kate Dewes
Coordinator of South Island Regional Office of Aotearoa/New Zealand Peace Foundation
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Creating a Culture of Peace
We can create a culture of peace by modeling the peace we want to achieve, based on "power with" rather than "power over".
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Graeme Dingle and Jo-anne Wilkinson
Graeme is Co-Founder together with Jo-anne Wilkinson as Chief Executive of Project K.
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The Future of Our Youth
Our on-going vision for youth development in New Zealand is to take it the next logical step – for youth service providers to work together more co-operatively so that they can be more effective in creating a potent youth culture in New Zealand.
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Dr. Barbara Disley
Previous Chair and Commissioner, MZ Mental Health Commission
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"Leadership in Mental Health"
Leadership is about a vision of partnership, interdependence, valuing each others "expertise" including the expertise of the person who may be experiencing poor mental health, and finding ways to forge a new way of being and of working.
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Peri Drysdale
Chief Executive of Snowy Peak
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The Importance a Our National Brand
New Zealand has a chance to create an entirely new type of economy, but we need vision, courage, commitment and speed.
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Dr. Mason Durie
Professor Mason H Durie is the Head of the School, Te Pütahi-ä-Toi (School of Mäori Studies), at Te Kunenga ki Pürehuroa (Massey University)
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Defensive or Integrative Leadership
Defensive leadership, with a focus on defending the patch, will be less relevant than integrative leadership with a focus on creating synergies.
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Brian Easton
An Independent Scholar
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Leadership in an MMP Regime
There is a particular need to devolve decisions-making into social institutions less dependant upon the government for their existence.
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Lisa Er
Entrepreneur, Change Agent
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The Spirit of New Zealand
Kindness is the key to sustainability.
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Robert Fenwick
Environmental Businessman
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How to be a Clever Little Country That Wastes Neither Resources nor Opportunity
If we are to be that clever little country that actually thinks about its children and the place they will inherit, we need to take steps in that direction.
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Ifor Ffowcs-Williams
CEO, Cluster Navigators Ltd
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A cornucopia of vibrant clusters
A key to New Zealand regaining its economic position is in shifting the focus from a few, somewhat blunt, national strategies to a series of sharply focussed local ones, driven by the stakeholders within each cluster
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Jeanette Fitzsimons
Co-leader of the NZ Green Party
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The Heart of Green Thinking
At the heart of Green thinking is a vision of healthy and replenishing relationships
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Gregory Fortuin
Company Director and former NZ race relations conciliator.
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It Is All About People – The Little Things That Matter The Most
I passionately dream of a decent society where our humanity is restored.
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Dr. Howard Frederick
Professor Innovation & Entrepreneurship at UNITEC
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3D Leadership for National Renewal
Frederick outlines his vision of leadership for the new millennium that will help restore New Zealand to the top half of the OECD and grow the cake for the prosperity of all.
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Lloyd Geering
Author, Foundation Professor of Religious Studies, Victoria University
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Envisioning the Future
Today’s global, secular and ecological world has emerged out of the ‘Christian West’, bringing the Christian era to an end and ushering in an (as yet embryonic) global culture.
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Peter Glensor
Chair of the Hutt Valley District Health Board
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I've Chosen to Serve Rather Than Survive
I believe that the life worth living is one to serve - which is not a struggle to survive.
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Sam Gordon
Post-graduate Student, Oxford University
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Volunteerism in a World of Changing Values
Our society's current focus on material items is unnatural and is driving us in an unhealthy direction . Volunteerism should be actively encouraged for the mutual and multiple benefits it brings.
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Seth Gorrie
Student
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Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants
My vision for New Zealand in 2020 is one in which our education system is representative of our youth and is supportive of the enhancements of the digital technology tools for the betterment of everybody.
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Bryan Gould
Author, Retired Vice Chancellor of Univeristy of Waikato, Director TVNZ, contested Blair's leadership in UK
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Democracy in New Zealand
We must ensure a fairer distribution of capital around the world and promote interntional cooperation in the interests of humanity rather than of maximising profits for a few.
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Robin Gunston
Chairperson New Zealand Futures Trust Inc.
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Believing that there is a better future for Aotearoa
This vision of New Zealand is based on the author’s desire to build on the core values that drove New Zealand to be explored and founded almost 200 years ago.
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Robin Gunston
Chairman of the Futures Thinking Aotearoa
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The Future of Democracy
So do we have real MMP, as many of us voted for 12 years ago, or are there forces at work that are trying to preserve a form of Government most of us do not want?
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Sir Michael Hardie Boys
Previous Governor General of New Zealand
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Leadership and Leaders – what is it? , and who are they?
Three key qualities ot outstanding leadership are consistency, competence and trustworthiness. The latter is the key stone.
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Ruth Harley
Chief Executive of the New Zealand Film Commission since 1997
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The Seven Keys to Kiwi Power
Within 25 years of establishing the New Zealand Film Commission we have acquired 13 Oscar nominations and 11 wins.
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Dr. Jane Harman
Dean, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, UNITEC
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Sustainability Requires Radical Societal Change
Educational institutions will play an important role in testing ideas and educating for sustainability
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Manuka Henare
Associate Dean Maori and Pacific Development, University of Auckland
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Dreaming, idealism, mysticism and a new humanism for Aotearoa New Zealand leadership
"I have a dream."
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John Hinchcliff
Vice Chancellor, Auckland University of Technology (retread)
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"Altruistic Leadership"
To cope with the challenging and changing turbulence of our complex society we need to go beyond the technical fix of the knowledge society and recover the old fashioned virtues of caring and responsible altruism.
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Brendon Hoare
Senior Lecturere in Sustainable Design and Hortecology
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Ensuring an Authentic Organic-Econation by 2020
Aotearoa New Zealand is an Organic Econation by the year 2020, a place that is ecologically sustainable, economically thriving and ignites the spirit.
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John Hogan
Founder of Volunteers for Conservation
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What NZ?
Thought provoking and challenging. Our future is in the balance.
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Leanne Holdsworth
Founder, Caring Community Project
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A Global Leader in Community Peace
The theme I champion is New Zealand as a peaceful, safe and caring nation.
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Paul Honeybone
Project Manager for the Social Policy Evaluation and Research Committee (SPEAR)
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Reframing Progress
Sustainability is simply an expression of hope.
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Dr. Robert Howell
Chair of the Council for Socially Responsible Investment
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A place for all to love, laugh, work and play
The vision I have for New Zealand is to be a place where people can love and be loved, laugh, work, play and have fun. Because we are part of a world community, we cannot achieve this vision in isolation, and we need to have concerns for integrity,
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Dick Hubbard
Founder of Hubbards Foods and NZ Business for Social Responsibility, Mayor of Auckland
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An Interview with Dick Hubbard
A man who walks the talk.
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Mike Hutcheson
Founder of the Lighthouse Ideas Company
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What We Are Good At
Co-opetition is better than competition in a small marketplace.
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David Irving
Businessman and Educator
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Grow or Die
I want to see a flourishing New Zealand - contributed to and shared throughout our community.
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Margaret Jefferies
Creating a Culture of Possibilies
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Creating a Culture of Possibilies
Recognizing our interconnected part of nature creates a culture of possibilies - openning us up to a sustainable future.
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Michael Jones
All time All Black "Great"
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A Life and a Country Based on Principles
My Vision for New Zealand is a place governed by principle led leaders and government, with integrity, honesty and respect.
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Rae Julian
Executive Director of Council for International Development, New Zealand
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New Zealand – An Equitable Society
Maybe a shock such as parts of the world descending into chaos through an attack by Western nations on Iraq might impel a desire for a better world, starting from our own.
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Deirdre Kent
Author of Healthy Money Healthy Planet, the Joy of Lobbying, interests and activities in civic participation and societal values.
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Healthy Money - Healthy New Zealand
The money system is the missing element in sustainability. We need economic reform to realise our potential as a country in which the bounty of nature and the fruit of human endeavours are fairly distributed.
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Colin Knox
Director of the Centre for Excellence in Governance of Te Wangaga o Raukawa
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Maori Leadership in Te Ao Maori
If there is to be agreement (which is probably not the same as unity) between Maori and the governing majority group, then both parties need to understand the other.
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Pauline Kumeroa Kingi
CNZM, NZIM Fellow, BA, DipCrim, LLB, LLM Harvard, Regional Director Tamaki Makaurau Regional Office
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A Way Forward for Aotearoa New Zealand
Four critical themes for the future of New Zealand are The Treaty, the changing community, the future challenges and achieving Kotahitanga-Unity in an every-changing enviornment.
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Christopher Laidlaw
Writer, Broadcaster, Commentator, Director
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Leadership: the Cultural Imperative
We need to cross the leadership divide between Maori and Pakeha.
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Tom Lambie
President – Federated Farmers of New Zealand (Inc)
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Future of Farming in New Zealand
My vision requires a society that recognises sound use of our natural resources is fundamental to achieving economic, environmental and social cohesion for all New Zealanders.
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John Laws
Mayor of Rodney
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Responsible for Future Generations
I see New Zealand known for its positive attitude toward the challenges we face and offers one of the best examples of democracy in the world – with a vibrant economy competing with the best globally. It's our children that will make the difference
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Dr. Ross MacDonald
Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland
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Buddhism. Economics and the Search for Happiness
The global economy broadly undermines the wisdom, and compassion necessary for justice and sustainability to prevail.
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Dr. Wayne Mapp
MP NOrth Shore
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Unifying the Nation – Our Rights and Our Freedoms
One of the great challenges facing our country is how to unite our peoples.
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Bridget Marsh
Previous, Head of School of Performing and Screeen Arts, UNITEC
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A New Approach to Education
I want to live where each individual is nurtured and difference honoured and celebrated at every level. Education is one of the most critical keys for this.
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Assistant Professor Peter Mataira
New Zealand Diaspora – University of Hawaii's, School of Social Work
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Indiviual Integrity: Ethical, Principle-Centred Leaderhip
In a world adverse to the "bottom-line", to intolerance, deceit and duplicity the search must continue for those who stand above this, attuned the needs others, to the interest of our children and our next generation of leaders
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Lesley Max
Director of the Pacific Foundation
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Alleviating Suffering; Releasing Potential
For me, the imperative was to alleviate children’s suffering, and release their potential.
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Bruce McIntyre
Founder and Chairman of MacPac
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Beyond Confrontation and Slavery
Although New Zealand is a relatively peaceful society compared with most others, we still have a lot to learn about living with the planet, about living with each other and about living with ourselves.
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Sir Roy McKenzie
Company Director, Philanthropist
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Leaders are not born.
“We make a living by what we get - we make a life by what we give."
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Brian McKinsey
Director of Special Projects - Tai Poutini Polytechnic
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Can a Healthy Economy be an Economy for Health"
The "Third Way," which seeks to combine a free market economy with social justice goals, is predicated on the achievement of economic growth. The paper argues that this"Third Way" is at odds with increasing levels of health and well-being.
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Diana C. Mead
Associate Head of School of Communication at UNITEC
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See Dick, See Jane - So What!
See Dick, See Jane, So What, reflects on the importance of family, school and community values that constitute the basis for our future leaders.
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Natalie Morgan
Youth Leader, Architecture student
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Youth Networking and Youth Leadership Fostering Peace for a Sustainable Future
We need to move beyond fixing singular youth problems in isolation, towards a culture of peace for a sustainable future
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Kepa (Te Kipa Kepa Brian) Morgan
Associate Dean Maori, Faculty of Engineering, University of Auckland
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Tangata Whenua - People of the Land
Aspirations for Maori are aspirations for all New Zealanders
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Professor Brian Murphy
Adjunct Professor of Marketing, Massey University
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The Good Business Commonsense of Leading Businesses
Leading businesses practise the commonsense of good business by being ethically good and by being good stewards of resources.
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Dr. John Neutze
Honorary Professor of the University of Auckland, in Medicine
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A Healthy Future For All
We have created a society of "haves" and "have-Nots" which has given us intractable problems in health.
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Tony Nowell
Chief Executive, ZESPRI International
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Define a Vision and Develop a Plan
We need a national vision, distilled from a national discussion, and enacted through a clear, measureable strategic plan
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Glen Oliver
Past President of the AUT Students Association
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Faces of Tomorrow: Encouraging New Zealand's Future Leaders
Empowering the next generation of people who will lead us into the future is possibly the biggest investment we can make in the future of our country.
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Rod Oram
International Financial Journalist
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Reforging Paradise
To become a wealthy nation again, New Zealanders have to tackle six major economic and social challenges. If we succeed, we will become the first nation to earn a First World living from its natural environment.
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Dr. John Peet
Advocate of Sustainability Ethics
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Sustainability is an issue of Ethics, not Technology
With good science, common sense and a well thought-out moral/ethical base, we will be well-equipped to develop meaningful policies for sustainable development.
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Katherine Peet
Voluneer Worker / Leader
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Inspiring Involvement
Leadership, accountability and commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi all have vital parts to play in developing volunteering, and contribute to the ability of the sector to broaden the perspectives of the other sectors.
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Bishop Richard Randerson
Dean of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Auckland
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Leadership: Purpose and Values
For New Zealand and New Zealanders to be successful we need to get the big picture right. Government, business and the community need to learn to work together for a common good . The key is having an overall sustainable development vision for NZ.
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Keith Rankin
Economist, lecturer UNITEC
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Accounting for God's and Others' Gifts
We need a capitalism in which public property rights are seen to be at least as important as private property rights.
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Gary Raumati Hook
CEO at Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi in Whakatane
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A Way Forward
We need to "think smart" and embrace the views of our multiethnic character.
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Sir Paul Reeves
Professor at the Auckland University of Technology
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Maori and the Future of New Zealand
This is an inspiring interview with one of New Zealand's great leaders.
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Caroline Robinson
Artist / Designer
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CREATIVE EVOLUTION Aotearoa
How will we cultivate the enormous creativity required to shape a sustainable and prosperous future?
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Matt Robson
Deputy Leader of the Progressive Party
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The Treaty: A Basis for Equality
The New Zealand identity is linked to the Treaty of Waitangi. If the Treaty becomes a foundation document for our nation it will be a reliable guide to building both a bi-cultural and a multi-cultural society of equality.
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Professor Jacqueline Rowarth
Professor Jacqueline Rowarth CRSNZ, HFNZIAS
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Tall Poppies and More
I am passionate about the role of agricultural science in New Zealand and the world, the importance of scientific research in general, and also about empowering people.
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Gary Russell
Public Action and Research
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A Community Governance Leadership Process Study for a Sustainable Well-being Society.
This sets out to provide guidelines to achieving a sustainable governing policy framework for Local Council members under the new Local Government Act environment.
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Guy Salmon
Ecologic Foundation, Researcher
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A Trustworthy Society Can Take The Long View
My vision for New Zealand is for a sustainable society: one that possesses a wide understanding of its long term needs; faces up to them resolutely; and has the cohesiveness and commitment to agree on and implement the needed actions.
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Anand Satyanand
Ombudsman of New Zealand
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Time For a New Zealand Charter
There is now a challenge in making our diversity work for us – in a way that all people ail feel that New Zealand is their own.
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Tim Shadbolt
Mayor of Invercargil
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Mayor of Two Cities
My future vision for New Zealand is for a caring, compassionate nation that lives in peace and harmony with ourselves and our neighbours.
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Ced Simpson
Executive Director of Amnesty International Aotearoa
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The Centrality of Human Rights in New Zealand Futures
Human Rights needs to be a central feature of a national vision.
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Sir Gil Simpson
Founder and President of Jade Software Corporation Limited
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Rediscovering our Entrepreneurial Spirit and Capacity to Innovate
New Zealand is faced with one of its greatest opportunities to improve our economic position in the world.
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David Skilling
Chief Executive of New Zealand Institute
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Creating an ownership society in New Zealand
Creating an ownership society in New Zealand is a fundamentally important economic and social issue. The good news is that there are concrete actions that can be taken to achieve this goal.
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Paul Smith
Veteral journalist, author, company director, Board Member of TVNZ
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Endings and beginnings and all….
'for too long we have allowed ourselves to follow, often with disastrous results'.
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Rodger Spiller
Managing Director of Money Matters
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Making Money and Making A Differecne
Encouraging individuals, financial institutions and businesses to demonstrate leadership and walk the talk by investing in sustainability results in a triple bottom line of environmental, social and economic wealth creation .
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Dr. Susan St. John
Dr Susan St John, senior lecturer in economics, social policy consultant, specialist in family economics and superannuation
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A Future That Includes Our Children and Our Aging Population
We must think past partisan politics and the ideology that the market will sort thing out - to what is the wise way for New Zealand to share its resources – for our children and for our aging population.
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Simon Terry
Executive Director of the Sustainability Council
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Beyond GM Food – Principles for Handling Risky Technologies
There are strong alternatives to GM agriculture that make use of technologies that are compatible with New Zealand’s clean green branding.
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Dr. Steve Thompson
CEO of the New Zealand Royal Society
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Think Again!
Just about everything we do now will not be done this way in thirty years time. It's up to us to think what the new way will be.
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Peter Townsend
Chief Executie, Canterbury Empoloyers'Chamber of Commerce
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Five Pillars of Economic Growth
There are several key issues essential for economic transformation. They slot roughly into five categories: 1) Harnessing intellectual capital; 2) Leveraging natural capital; 3) Addressing issues of infrastructure and utilities; 4) Attitude to
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Andrew Waelen
4th year undergrad student in Mechatronics at Univerity of Auckland
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Youth Have Alot To Contribute
Imagine a New Zealand where the focus in on taking pride in our country and being as invovled as we can be.
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Cath Wallace
Sr. lecturer in economics and public policy in the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington
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Valuing What's Important
If we re-orient our management of our impacts to one of kaitiakitanga, give up the conceit that humans own the planet and bring into better focus in public debates those things that we value most, we are likely to be better off now and in the future
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Alyn Ware
Consultant for peace and disarmament
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Visions for the 21st Century
Leadership from Aotearoa – New Zealand could play a vital role in building a peaceful and just world.
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Professor Ian Watson
Principal of Massey Uniservisty, Albany Campus - Retired
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Three Dimensional Leadership
We must be able to live harmoniously within ourselves, be a part of the global village and financially support a just and humane society.
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Dr. James Watson
CEO of Genesis Research & Development Corp Ldt
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Envisioning a Future for Biotechnology in New Zealand
Biotechology is seen as one of the pillars upon which New Zealand must build the economy of the future.
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Haare Williams
Maori Broadcaster
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The Treaty Is About "Saying, Sorry."
Te Tiriti o Waitangi-The Treaty of Waitangi through the Waitangi Tribunal holds the greatest potential for peace and justice in our own nation in our own time. We can unify in a united coalition for peace.
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Dr. Morgan Williams
Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
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Curitiba
Sustainable development requires big doses of leadership, vision, passion and knowledge-richness – all found in the mix of ingredients that makes Curitiba, Brazil a model worthy of New Zealand's interests.
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Ross Wilson
President oft the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
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Building a Better New Zealand
I would like to see an independent, respected and creative country that offers a fair share of wealth to its people.
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John Wise
Consultant to organisations and communities
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Making Things Better not Bigger
As a nation, how do we capiatlisw on our unique gifts to create the futue of our choice without "killing the goose"?
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Liu Shueng Wong
Ethnic Advisor, Office of Ethnic Affairs, NZ
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From Culture Towards Diversity – a Process of Examining Our Own Prejudices
New Zealand can move beyond the cultural awareness of the Other to exploring ways of being diverse through acceptance rather than resistance of difference.
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Meredith Youngson
Community Leader
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Revitalizing Community Spirit
The personal story of how the Swanson Railroad Station project became a catalyst for community growth and change.
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