We tend to focus on tailwinds boosting growth or headwinds reducing it. Much rarer is the focus on growth momentum. This is Cees Bruggemans’ latest piece,
It is in these pertinent moments, when life does what life does, and brings up situations like looming retrenchment, that a change in perspective is what we need.
As an analyst and commentator for Business Day and eNCA, Trudi Makhaya is highly sought after for her views on the complexities of competition, economic policy, and business strategy.
Peter Wilhelm shares with the Biznews community another one of his laugh-out-loud, tongue-in-cheek satirical columns. The perfect dose of reflective comedy to get you through the rest of the week.
It is called the happy:grumpy ratio, and measures how many cheery staff the bank employs for every curmudgeon.The point of this exercise was that happy employees are more likely to do the right thing than unhappy ones.
Imagine if the average person did not retire at age 60/65 – what is, after all, simply culturally entrenched, arbitrary and becoming increasingly meaningless as average lifespan creeps ever upward.
SARB last month was severe and hawkish enough to make it sink in that the bar is set very high for any interest rate cuts this year. Instead, it was allowed that this country needs more reform rather than more monetary accommodation.
Distrust sows distrust and vice versa, don’t be surprised if a rule-making, taxing, social-engineering, encroaching state is viewed with private suspicion.
