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Regulation + Series Wrap

FRIDAY 23RD MARCH

Good Morning Everyone,

TODAY'S VIDEO: "To regulate or not." (2min:14)

Across the Telco spectrum does Government still need to step in anywhere?

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As an observer of the series, you can’t help but notice how the various leaders play to an ever changing gameplan, often with central planks placed or moved by others. Leadership-wise this creates a heady mix of holding one’s own strategic line amongst shifting goalposts. (Forgive the metaphors.)

This concludes our 9th Video chapter from this year’s Telco series, once more sponsored by the NEC team. NEC have stepped in for a third year now to support the focus and go-forward of the many that work in Telco.

Coming up and throughout the year you will see another one of our ‘Leadership Is’ TV promos to acknowledge this particular Telco series, promote a further point on identifying leadership, as well as pointing out NEC again being the ones to provide this type of support to the industry. Leonard and the NEC team: thank you for backing the leaders’ own forum for this series, and for allowing us to help the industry in this way.

To our leadership 5 - thanks again for stepping forward in a way you would normally not do in other forums. Takes a bit of courage that is good for others to observe.

‘Telco’ continues with a mix of our TV One leader vignettes next week including a 6pm One News slot Saturday week.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Best,

Peter.

Producer

ptanich@leadersreview.co.nz

TUESDAY 20TH MARCH

MONDAY'S VIDEO: "Skills to sell UFB?"

A look as to how and if the industry is ready to sell UFB from a technical and sales viewpoint. 

Reminds one of when 3G Mobile first came around: we all knew it was relatively fast - but what was the compelling business case to go out and buy the staff those handsets?

TUESDAY'S VIDEO: “Merger & Acquisition Pressures.”

Fascinating views as to industry forces at work this year.

TV1 Leaders' Vignette TVCs this week (between Nadine's business bulletins):

MON 6.10AM, TUES 6.20AM, WED 6.20AM, THURS 6.10AM, FRI 6.20AM.

Best,

Peter.

Leaders discuss their forward focus for 2012 and beyond

THURSDAY 15TH MARCH

TODAY'S VIDEO: “Leaders' Forward Focus.” (3min:43)

Projecting forward tactically and strategically.

The next steps into 2012 and beyond.

LAST TUESDAY’S VIDEO: "2011 Review : Lessons"

Where the guys distinguished themselves as leaders beyond spokespeople.

LAST MONDAY'S VIDEO: "Review 2011 : Wins."

Whole point of Leaders Review is not to be chest-beating exercise, more one of focus but sometimes when you hear about how hard the yards are and how they’ve been earned, even this producer can occasionally whip out a chapter solely devoted to just the bouyant stuff. We’ll recapture our balance with an incredible Lessons chapter tomorrow ;-)

TV1 Leaders' Vignettes TVCs this week (between Nadine's business bulletins):

MON 6.10AM, TUES 6.20AM, WED 6.20AM, THURS 6.10AM, FRI 6.20AM.

Reflections that refine tactics

TUESDAY 13TH MARCH

TODAY'S VIDEO: “Review 2011: Lessons.” (2min:53)
And this is where the guys distinguish themselves as leaders beyond spokespeople.

YESTERDAY’S VIDEO:  "Review 2011 : Wins."

Whole point of Leaders Review is not to be chest-beating exercise, more one of focus but sometimes when you hear about how hard the yards are and how they’ve been earned, even this producer can occasionally whip out a chapter solely devoted to just the bouyant stuff. We’ll recapture our balance with an incredible Lessons chapter tomorrow ;-)

THIS THURSDAY: “Forward Focus 2012” Some of the guidelines and game-plan showing how and where our voices from Telco are settling their gaze for the year ahead.

TV1 Leaders' Vignettes TVCs this week (between Nadine's business bulletins):

MON 6.10AM, TUES 6.20AM, WED 6.20AM, THURS 6.10AM, FRI 6.20AM.

Have a great week everyone.

$1.5Bn of Holes In the Ground but will we buy into it??

MONDAY 5TH MARCH

TODAY'S VIDEO: "UFB Uptake - Key Issues" (4min:30)

Opening chapter for our first new series of the year and its around some very front-and-centre issues right now: $1.5B of holes in the ground to come but has everyone including the Telcos thought about how they're going to sell the facility, and just as importantly, why businesses are going to buy it? 

COMING UP TOMORROW: "Control of Content"

Concerns as to how the owners of content rights may well start to effectively control the Telco industry landscape.

THIS WEEK: TV One Breakfast Leaders Review 'Leaders Vignettes'

MON 6:10AM AD BREAK, TUES 6.20AM, WED 6.20AM, THURS 6:10AM, FRI 6.20AM.

Other Leaders Review promos can be seen nationally and regionally around the TV One daily schedule as they occur.

Needless to say a real pleasure to get our first Leaders Review series underway this year. 

Leonard, Mark, Eric, Paul and new to our Telco leaders' series, Hayden - thank you all (again) for putting your heads again above the parapet to reveal many more thoughts than the PR folk would normally allow ;-) along with some healthy self-reflection on leadership in the coming weeks.

To Murray Jurgeleit from FX Networks who stepped down as CEO after the last series - thanks for all that grounded wisdom the last two years. You're a scholar and a gentlemen, Murray.

A huge thank you to NEC for supporting the wider Telco industry of leaders, executives and professionals as main sponsor for the 3rd year in a row. You've allowed us to provide a current industry state-of-play; a sneak peek as to what some of the industry are planning in the year about to come, and a leaders' review of the year that's just been.

Some big hits and insights over the coming weeks so do enjoy it.

(And don't forget to join the alert system top right if you haven't already and we'll let you know first thing as new video chapters are released. We average 3 per week.)

All the very best to you for the year ahead.

Peter Anich

MONDAY 27TH FEBRUARY

You will have noticed our regular 6.20AM TV promo slot is back from this morning, now between Nadine’s business bulletins on this year’s earlier Breakfast show.

TVNZ have been great at sprinkling further slots of our leadership vignettes and “leadership is’ promos throughout the TV1 day so we (naturally) look forward for more of those this year.

Anyway - welcome back to Leaders Review, now into its third ‘season’.

For many of you in our executive and business community, we intend sticking to the same formula of business leaders from the various industries we feature, talking down-to-earth pragmatism and focus, with real reflections on leadership.

By agreement in terms of their stepping forward, we stick to real speak and will continue in that style that has worked well the past two years. Yes, we’ll ask them about their wins - but being a leadership series primarily, we’ll also get them to speak about their lessons from the past year - and how they will now focus forward.

From the sponsorship point of view, to those who would support those leaders, and more so the confidence they bring to their wider industry and client communities, the basis of our sponsor invitation will also remain relatively simple: its not a PR or marketing exercise per se - the project is a coming together of companies and leadership that share a real concern regarding getting some down-to-earth vision, focus and go-forward thinking out there, one industry at a time. The logos you see on this page, in-video, and throughout our various TVCs are from company leadership that realised this was set up with greater intent than simply to become another marketing option.

You may have noticed there are now a two or three ‘knock-offs’ out there of the Leaders Review style. While part of me says ‘good on them’, the less than subtle departure is that all the leaders featured spend most of their time talking glowingly of the main sponsor. What easily looks like over million-dollar campaigns, also result in a YouTube viewership (for the extended online video versions of the TV shorts) that measures in the ‘tens’ of viewers. Leaders Review is about to crack around 6,000 unique video viewers, mainly from executives or business owners within our featured industries.

The reason is fairly simple: business folk have only got time to take in something real that will focus and provide go-forward for themselves. Would you really go online for what is the extended promotional of one company?

This week, you’ll see some of our general promos on the box in the lead up to the first series next Monday, Telco Leaders Review (Update 3). With Telco media stories hitting the news rounds heavily, and post last fortnight’s big Telco conference, this one won’t pull any punches, addressing some pretty serious long-term business issues for all of us.

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