Once Upon a Leader: Leadership Pathways to Wealth Creation in Science and Technology

Last Updated: March 2004

The Once Upon a Leader study of 31 New Zealand business leaders has established a clear pathway for successful leaders to follow. The Royal Society study, funded by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE), was initiated to help determine how to develop more successful leaders to commercialise and export the nation’s science and technology.  Released on 22 March 2004 it has revealed some common influences and a clear pathway for successful leaders that the project team hopes will help individuals diagnose their own needs and stage of development and enable other organisations to assist and encourage them.

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Table of Contents

Executive Report

• Our study
• The leadership pathway
• Widening the pathway
• Issues
• Recommendations
• Moving up the pathway
• Acknowledgements
• The project team
• The Leaders we interviewed

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Research Report Table of Contents

• Summary
• Once Upon a Leader
  1. Technology leadership developmental model
  2. Critical encounters on the success path
  3. Seeds of knowledge
  4. Lessons learned: mini case-study development
  5. Environmental factors
  6. Conclusion
• Background material
• The leaders we interviewed
• Mini case-studies
  1. Dennis Chapman
  2. Andrew Thompson
  3. Neville Jordan 
  4. Jim Donovan
  5. Peter Hubscher
  6. Adrien de Croy
  7. Ken Stevens
  8. Wendy Pye
  9. Richard Taylor 
  10. Rick Wells