The Business Doctor Keitumetse Lekaba

It’s Women’s Day! And while many incredible women have shaped me, challenged me, opened doors for me, and taught me lessons I carry every day, today I want to talk about something slightly different. The lessons I have learnt from men. And look, I have been around some tough men along my journey. Look, I'm not talking strict; I mean tough! I have spent many years in business. I have sat in boardrooms, negotiated contracts, pitched ideas, helped build businesses, lost opportunities, won...

One of the greatest tragedies isn't that people reject us. It's that we reject ourselves long before anyone else gets the chance. We spend so much of our lives trying to be acceptable, agreeable and easy to digest that we slowly erase the very things that make us unique. We soften our opinions. We shrink our dreams. We avoid difficult conversations. We become experts at reading the room but strangers to reading ourselves. The problem with people-pleasing is that it doesn't just cost you your...

This week, my family and I buried my uncle (for context, my mom's younger brother, because anyone can be an uncle). As with every funeral, there were tears, memories, laughter, old stories, and the familiar question that quietly lingers long after everyone has gone home: What will people say about us when we're gone? I hope they never have to say, "She was still planning to travel." "He always wanted to start that business." "She kept saying one day." "He never really got around to living."...