The invisible chair: Wayne Boyd on a life in governance

The invisible chair: Wayne Boyd on a life in governance
Straight-shooting nice guy, Wayne Boyd, reflects on decades of corporate leadership in NZ. (Image: NZME)
Pattrick Smellie
Late one evening, a cleaner entered an office room where Wayne Boyd, the chairman of what was then Telecom, was working with one of the communications team on some difficult thing.The roar of a vacuum cleaner soon drowned out the high-stakes corporate chin-wag.There was an embarrassed request for quiet.Turning to Boyd, the comms person remarked apologetically: “Sorry about that. I don’t think they know you are."To which Boyd replied: “That’s okay. I don’t know who they are either.”After conversations wit...

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