Putting the Community Back into Business: What Te Ao Māori Can Teach Us About Sustainable Management

By Ben Walker, Erin Roxburgh-Makea, Jesse Pirini, and Stephen Cummings. Walk into any boardroom or business school and you’ll often hear the same companies held up as models of excellence: Apple, Tesla, Google and so on. Sharing success stories from te ao Māori (the Māori world)? Not so much. And that’s a shame. There are many of them, and they can teach us how to manage and grow organisations in sustainable ways that benefit the wider community — goals that often elude large Western businesses.