Jerry Schuitema
Bracing for big bubble bursts
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:...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Sep 9, 2019
- 4 min
Losing our marbles.
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...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Oct 15, 2018
- 4 min
Common purpose; Common fate.
Two critical pillars missing from the unemployment discourse. There can be no greater forces for cohesion in a group than having a common...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Apr 9, 2018
- 5 min
Stakeholder capitalism.
Can South Africa create a fresh economic approach to growth and inclusivity? Part of the enthusiasm of a “new dawn” in South Africa is...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Nov 13, 2017
- 5 min
What the ancients knew.
An enduring principle that can help rescue the economy. From a distance it looked like an ordinary broken stone. But when farm manager,...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Oct 30, 2017
- 4 min
Beyond share empowerment schemes.
Lessons from the failed SASOL Inzalo share empowerment scheme. In their heyday, employee share option schemes, or ESOPS, were nothing...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Oct 16, 2017
- 4 min
The wealth distribution obsession.
To the point of Incapacitating wealth creation itself. It’s a cliché, I know, but one can only imagine the positive change that is...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Oct 2, 2017
- 4 min
Follow the meaning.
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...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Sep 4, 2017
- 5 min
An age of economic soul-searching.
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,...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Aug 21, 2017
- 4 min
Destroying company relationships.
By having absurd theories, abstracts and aggregates define them. If economic theory holds true, you could have a good business selling...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Aug 7, 2017
- 4 min
Symphonies of endeavour.
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...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Jul 10, 2017
- 5 min
The hole in the jobs bucket.
And the three dimensions of radical government transformation. If you promised the Government that you could create 48-thousand new jobs...
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Jerry Schuitema
- May 2, 2017
- 5 min
Bullhorns of discontent.
Threatening the unifying potential and benefits of a radical economic overhaul. Radical economic transformation (RET) has been around for...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Apr 19, 2017
- 5 min
The crux of the turmoil.
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...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Feb 22, 2017
- 4 min
Believe it or not
What happens when information becomes increasingly less credible? Fed; filtered; fake; false and alternative facts are words increasingly...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Feb 7, 2017
- 4 min
A monstrous model exposed.
The lie that tarnished the best social system humanity has ever created. Not all lies are based on deceit and malevolence. Sometimes they...
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