Theresa Gattung

[Bob Kane]

Gattung says Fletcher wouldn't have foundered with a woman at the top

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/101...man-at-the-top

Fletcher Building wouldn't have hit its recent bout of trouble, had it had a woman in charge, one of New Zealand's highest-profile businesswomen says.
Former Spark boss, co-founder of My Food Bag and professional director Theresa Gattung spoke on Friday at a forum discussing equal pay and gender diversity in business.
During the Q&A session, when a member of the audience asked how Sir Ralph Norris would have faced Fletcher Building's shareholder meeting this week had he been a woman, Gattung said the construction company would never have been in poor financial state had a woman been at the helm.
"If a woman had been chairing Fletchers, that wouldn't have happened," she said. The room broke into a thunderous applause.

Dear me.
Theresa (waving a ruby red tube of lipstick) single-handed launched Telecoms bold move into Australia and promptly lost $2.5 billion.
This decimated Telecom which was carved up, renamed and struggled to survive.
It may be argued that Theresa managed to lose more money than any other kiwi ever - man or woman.
Just saying.

[Davo36]

Gattung says Fletcher wouldn't have foundered with a woman at the top

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/101...man-at-the-top


Dear me.
Theresa (waving a ruby red tube of lipstick) single-handed launched Telecoms bold move into Australia and promptly lost $2.5 billion.
This decimated Telecom which was carved up, renamed and struggled to survive.
It may be argued that Theresa managed to lose more money than any other kiwi ever - man or woman.
Just saying.

I agree, she was terrible. Caught out in emails saying she supported Telecom's way of keeping customers confused to get the most money out of them too.

Fonterra aren't doing much better: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/02/1...-wall-in-china

[Nick G]

It's the risk of having very big companies in a business culture that does not have enough senior management talent experienced in running very big companies.

[Perry]

The room broke into a thunderous applause.

Theresa single-handedly launched Telecom's bold move into Australia and promptly lost $2.5 billion.

Given the sub-standard of contemporary reporting, perhaps that was thunderous laughter, rather than applause?

[BlueSky]

Many will say she is hopeless in the Kitchen too let alone as a CEO.

she was groomed for the Telecom role by Dean. Totally out of her depth.

[Sharon]

Disastrous CEO for Telecom, politically naive, created culture of poor customer relations and now suggests the mess with Fletcher's gender based. Truly breath taking.