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The winner of the governance tohu in this year’s Auckland University Business School Māori Business Awards says the whānau connections that underpin Māori business means growing a business can mean growing a community.
Paul Morgan, the chair of Nelson-based Wakatū Incorporation, says the awards showed the diversity of Māori business, for small whānau entities to large land-based and iwi enterprises.
He says running a Māori business usually involves being able to work with your kin , and he has enjoyed the discipline that brings.
"When you can bring the owners with you and the families with you, in a business it's not just about a business but it's about everyone growing. And the more they can understand, participate, be involved and get self-confidence that we can be successful as a people and run businesses, that's really good because they can also have a go themselves and there are many of them are clearly now running their own small businesses," Mr Morgan says
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