At the end of last month, a major global trade report landed with a blunt verdict. The rules-based system that shaped world commerce for a generation is now in permanent disruption, being rewritten in real time by tariffs, artificial intelligence and geopolitics. For a South African executive, that is not a distant headline. We run…
Over the past two months I have written about the two anxieties that follow executives around: the strategic worry that keeps them up at night, and the operational one that fills their day. This final piece steps back from the individual leader to the thing a business actually sits inside: a country, a community, a…
Last month I wrote about what keeps South African executives up at night: the global shocks, and the gap between strategy and performance. This is the sequel, because there is a second, quieter anxiety, and it does not wait for the dark. It arrives in the middle of the working day. It is not the…
