🔒 Ted Black: Pick ‘n Pay’s cash revolution: CEO Summers simplifies success in Africa
Following in the footsteps of former Pick ‘n Pay CEO Raymond Ackerman’s, new CEO Sean Summers has transformed the company.
Following in the footsteps of former Pick ‘n Pay CEO Raymond Ackerman’s, new CEO Sean Summers has transformed the company.
Naspers faces a crucial juncture in its corporate journey. Can the company learn from the late Steve Jobs’ transformative strategies?
Ted Black reflects on the Covid pandemic and delves into the importance of understanding variation and root causes in managing crises.
Ted Black writes on Steinhoff’s downfall and the importance of measuring the right strategies and principles to avoid such failures.
Following the rise of multiple “turnarounds” in the media, Ted Black delves into whether flourishing turnarounds are only due to “brilliant” CEO’s.
PPC performed poorly when Covid-19 containment measures brought business activity to a standstill, but the pandemic seems to have exposed hidden vulnerabilities.
Analyst Ted Black says the Covid-19 lockdown has ‘hurled’ South Africa back many years and it is critical to get the country more productive.
In this article, part II of a series, Ted Black looks at how the mantra of maximising shareholder value can have the opposite effect.
Ted Black, a Return on Assets Managed specialist, has ripped open the books of Nampak and Naspers in order to investigate whether they are really making an economic profit.
Ted Black looks at the consequences for big businesses focusing on numbers at the expense of people. He busts an investment myth about maximising shareholder value.