Three critical inferences from the latest global trust barometer. When a story is repeated often enough, most old hacks will start ignoring it as old news. T...

From one cliffhanger decade to the next. 2019 must surely go down as a year that produced the most cliff-hangers on a number of fronts: globally and domestic...

How much can we still trust prices and statistics? As pre-teen kids one of our favourite schoolyard games was marbles. We would draw a circle and each player...

Two critical pillars missing from the unemployment discourse. There can be no greater forces for cohesion in a group than having a common purpose and accepti...

Can South Africa create a fresh economic approach to growth and inclusivity? Part of the enthusiasm of a “new dawn” in South Africa is the belief that a clos...

An enduring principle that can help rescue the economy. From a distance it looked like an ordinary broken stone. But when farm manager, Adrian Sutton, got cl...

Lessons from the failed SASOL Inzalo share empowerment scheme. In their heyday, employee share option schemes, or ESOPS, were nothing more than an extension ...

To the point of Incapacitating wealth creation itself. It’s a cliché, I know, but one can only imagine the positive change that is possible if South Africa, ...

And get a better idea of company health than following the money. “Follow the money”, they say, “and you will get to the essence.” Do that with any company o...

Was the great recession a bigger game changer than we realise? In women’s month, on a cold Sunday night in the farm-workers’ compound, cheap wine-fuelled jov...

By having absurd theories, abstracts and aggregates define them. If economic theory holds true, you could have a good business selling Johannesburg big Mac h...

A different view of the context for a stable and sustainable company. There’s been quite a change in my little space in paradise. What was once largely untou...

And the three dimensions of radical government transformation. If you promised the Government that you could create 48-thousand new jobs in a few months they...

Threatening the unifying potential and benefits of a radical economic overhaul. Radical economic transformation (RET) has been around for about half a decade...

You cannot be free when you are in debt. April fool’s day on the 1st has certainly lived up to its name. For around it, we have had a few weeks of utter foll...

What happens when information becomes increasingly less credible? Fed; filtered; fake; false and alternative facts are words increasingly being heard in rela...

The lie that tarnished the best social system humanity has ever created. Not all lies are based on deceit and malevolence. Sometimes they are based on seemin...