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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:...
Jerry Schuitema
Jan 20, 20204 min read
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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...
Jerry Schuitema
Sep 9, 20194 min read
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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...
Jerry Schuitema
Oct 15, 20184 min read
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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...
Jerry Schuitema
Apr 9, 20185 min read
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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,...
Jerry Schuitema
Nov 13, 20175 min read
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Beyond share empowerment schemes.
Lessons from the failed SASOL Inzalo share empowerment scheme. In their heyday, employee share option schemes, or ESOPS, were nothing...
Jerry Schuitema
Oct 30, 20174 min read
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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...
Jerry Schuitema
Oct 16, 20174 min read
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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...
Jerry Schuitema
Oct 2, 20174 min read
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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,...
Jerry Schuitema
Sep 4, 20175 min read
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Destroying company relationships.
By having absurd theories, abstracts and aggregates define them. If economic theory holds true, you could have a good business selling...
Jerry Schuitema
Aug 21, 20174 min read
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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...
Jerry Schuitema
Aug 7, 20174 min read
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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...
Jerry Schuitema
Jul 10, 20175 min read
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Bullhorns of discontent.
Threatening the unifying potential and benefits of a radical economic overhaul. Radical economic transformation (RET) has been around for...
Jerry Schuitema
May 2, 20175 min read
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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...
Jerry Schuitema
Apr 19, 20175 min read
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Believe it or not
What happens when information becomes increasingly less credible? Fed; filtered; fake; false and alternative facts are words increasingly...
Jerry Schuitema
Feb 22, 20174 min read
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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...
Jerry Schuitema
Feb 7, 20174 min read
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