I was facilitating a #strategy training session and I asked the participants, “What is the first thing you recall about the late #stevejobs?” Their responses were profound. They all mentioned the word Apple. It wasn’t the billions he had in the bank. They remembered how he impacted the world. Steve…

Someone who has dedicated themselves solely to theory knows everything but can do nothing.[1] Professor Lohn In this age of knowledge, information and data, it is no longer a matter of what you know but, what you do with what you know. We live in a highly competitive and cluttered…

I love ideas and I love innovation, especially when they become products and services. But at times it is difficult to bring ideas or innovations into the public space especially in Zimbabwe and probably around Africa. When I wrote the book the Lion and the Maasai Warrior, one of the…

I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. Eccl9:11 New International Version …

I’m not a big guy by whatever standards you choose to judge me, weight, height or size but one thing I enjoy most is walking into the gym and squatting or dead-lifting weights. I’m a recent convert to the gym and I’m far from being an expert or master. …

Confronting the tension between certainty and uncertainty in life Life is a paradox When the world came to a complete standstill this year, what may have come to the surface is the contrary nature of your life. You thought you were moving or making progress but, you’re not. You are stuck in a mundane routine, taking 1 step forward and two steps back. …

The creative act is not an act of creation in the sense of the Old Testament. It does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, re-shuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, skills. The more familiar the parts, the more striking the new whole. Koestler’s law of…

There has been so much talk over the years about the mineral wealth and the vast tracts of natural resources endowed to Africa. …