The Business Doctor Keitumetse Lekaba

I am probably on a flight every second week, on average. You would think that by now, the fascination would have worn off. It hasn’t. Every time I sit on a plane, I am still amazed that something so enormous can leave the ground, carry hundreds of people across countries and continents, and somehow land safely at its destination. I watch the wings. I listen to the engines. I notice the change in sound as we begin to accelerate. I remain fascinated by the fact that this massive machine can...

Social media has done something very interesting to entrepreneurship: it has made every business look the same size. A block!! Think about it. On your screen, the startup operating from somebody’s spare bedroom occupies exactly the same little square as the company turning over hundreds of millions. The entrepreneur with two employees appears right underneath the entrepreneur with an executive committee, five departments and 200 employees. You scroll from one to the other without necessarily...

I got a new car recently: a stunning Renault Duster. And yes, I love it. The interior is brilliant, the exterior looks great, and it drives beautifully… all the things you notice when you're excited about a new car. But then I drove it at night and suddenly saw the car differently. With the lights on, it's like the interior changed. Little details that I had barely noticed during the day suddenly became part of the experience. The exterior looked different too. Same car. Same design. Same...