JEREMY MAGGS: A very warm welcome and let’s start with this. Adrian Saville is not only a respected voice in the realm of economics and finance, but also a distinguished professor at the Gordon Institute of Business Science [Gibs]. With South Africa facing pressing economic challenges and the spectre of Stage 8 load shedding, concerns are constantly being arisen about the nation’s financial stability.
JEREMY MAGGS: And it gets incrementally more difficult, doesn’t it, for us to extricate ourselves from this dark hole. She identifies 85 projects, and she delivers these with a 75% success rate. This is what South Africa needs to do to get out of this dysfunctional behaviour of the talking and document writing and pointing and blaming.JEREMY MAGGS: And Adrian, short-term wins, I would imagine if you used that example, almost start the flywheel, don’t they?
JEREMY MAGGS: The moment we start seeing more green lights, to steal your metaphor, on that dashboard that you’re proposing, the posters, the better we start feeling about it.ADRIAN SAVILLE: The metaphor travels well, ja, absolutely. Then you start to change the psyche. I think that underneath, to go back to your earlier observation, there are a lot of people walking around here worried about how things are going.