Author(s): Colin Prentice & Ian Hunter

Biographies & Memoirs

At 35, he was one of the youngest secondary school principals in New Zealand history. His first school, Macleans College, was quickly ranked among the top ten academic schools in New Zealand. His second, Mt Roskill Grammar, established itself as one of the top multicultural schools in the country. In both he tackled the fundamental issues of discipline, underachievement, school leadership, and multiculturalism. In 1994, Colin Prentice became CEO of World Vision, New Zealand's largest international aid and development agency. The questions were the same, the territory was new: How do you improve the market leader? How do you achieve age-old values in a modern organisation? How do you create a climate and tradition of excellence? How do you weld a team of diverse people together? How do you run an organisation when the bottom line is not profit? This book answers these questions and more. From the classrooms of Auckland to the killing fields of Rwanda, Colin Prentice takes you on a journey that will inspire, challenge, equip, and most of all, captivate you. When People Matter Most is a powerful mix of educational strategies mixed with gritty no-nonsense advice on leadership, brought to life through heart-stirring accounts of ordinary people achieving extraordinary things. Heart-centred leadership emerges as the new way to run a 21st-century organisation.