Randall Carolissen (PhD) Archives

Overcoming the psychosocial consequences of persistent unemployment

23rd September 2026

Structural unemployment has harmful psychosocial effects that erode individual identity, human dignity, mental well-being, social inclusion, and economic mobility – all foundations...

Big Reads

Randall Carolissen | Advancing intellectual activism in SA higher education: An imperative for restorative social justice

12th August 2026

The genesis of this article is the recollection of a reality so stark that that even a hardened cynic was shocked. Recently...

Big Reads

Does power corrupt or are the corrupt attracted to power?

19th June 2026

Sturm and Antonakis defined power as “having the discretion and the means to asymmetrically enforce one’s will over others”. Finding resonance with...

Big Reads

Corruption in the evolution of human society and the power motive gearing it

11th June 2026

South Africa’s democratic transition in 1994, supported by its widely admired Constitution, transformed the country from pariah status into a global model...

Big Reads

Improving debates on inequality in South Africa

20th May 2026

The merits of an inclusive, equitable society are broadly in consensus, but the approaches cannot be more widely different between contesting parties....

Opinion

Quantum leadership in the age of uncertainty

9th May 2026

Quantum leadership is a philosophy inspired by theories from Quantum Mechanics, Complex Adaptive Systems, and modern systems thinking. It emerged in response...