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Over the weekend, I finished a new book, Cuba: An American History by New York University professor Ada Ferrer. The Passover story has deep relevance to the story of Cuba. Unfortunately, Americans play the role of Pharoah. Here is the shocking truth about America’s role in the Cuban slave trade. 

To play their part in setting the nation back on the path to prosperity, South Africa’s institutions need to focus on rekindling trust and demonstrating a willingness to collaborate and take collective action.

The American newspaper magnate, William Randolph Hearst defined news as that which somebody wants suppressed.

The findings of this year’s 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer underline how a longstanding scepticism of media has metastasized into a broader distrust of nearly all institutions and spokespeople.

Circumstances have thrown CEOs into new and uncharted waters. This is underscored in the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer, which reveals that business is the institution most trusted (61 percent) to lead on a range of vexing issues.

‘My employer’ is the most trusted institution; business must not squander its hard-earned trust gains by looking for short-term solutions to boost sales.

When it comes to the short- and long-term impact of the coronavirus, organisations must carefully consider how, when and why they contact customers. Here, we describe the key steps to consistent, clear and effective customer communications, and share some best practice examples from four sectors that have been particularly impacted by the crisis so far.

When it comes to the short- and long-term impact of the coronavirus, organisations must carefully consider how, when and why they contact customers. Here, we describe the key steps to consistent, clear and effective customer communications, and share some best practice examples from four sectors that have been particularly impacted by the crisis so far.

Since the start of March, City trading floors have been fighting to unwind mounting risk positions through quagmire conditions. As the coronavirus crisis intensified last week, announcements of unprecedented asset purchase programmes by central banks left markets struggling to reconcile the “wall of worry” with an uncharted economic environment.

The Sunday Times called it “the return of fear”. The FT’s editorial board, in its obituary for the 11 year bull market, described the coronavirus-related sell-off as “a perfect storm [that] wreaks havoc on global markets”. Both newspapers concluded that a global recession is “imminent”.