16/04/2026
Strive Masiyiwa
Econet Zimbabwe
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If you are an entrepreneur who has not launched a new product innovation or a new product entirely in the last three months (and there's not even one in the pipeline), you are probably not going to scale your business into something great.
Ouch!
Remember: the most successful businesses in the world are those whose DNA is built around INNOVATION. These are companies where everyone comes to work with a mindset that requires them to contribute to and celebrate their company's innovative prowess.
__Innovation is not just left to one particular team or department! The mindset is infused in EVERY level of the organisation, from your drivers and cleaners on up to the governing board!
Just think of great companies like Google, or any of the amazing new AI companies; it almost seems that they are launching something every week, and they just don’t stop.
Elon Musk and his companies are built on radical . People who work there have told me that if you cannot show a contribution to innovation, they will w**d you out ruthlessly.
As an entrepreneur in today’s world, INNOVATION must be top of mind in everything you do, and no business sector is exempt from the need to be innovative to prosper.
Even as a young junior employee, are you able to understand the progress of your business in terms of its innovative prowess?
What about those of you who work in NGOs or public sector departments? The importance of an mindset is certainly not limited to the private sector!
Comment below. I really want to understand what is going on in your business or company in terms of INNOVATION:
What is your latest innovation? It could be a or a or even a business model? Did you develop it yourself, or was it a ? (Remember: Don’t tell me any proprietary business secrets here!)
What is your own innovation pipeline like? Do you have plans for the next three months?
If not, why not? What or who are you waiting for?
For those of you not yet positioned to answer those homework questions as an entrepreneur or employee (maybe you’re still a student), here’s a different assignment: What’s the greatest innovation you’ve personally seen and benefited from? Who came up with it?
Innovations don’t come out of thin air. They are imagined by people just like you and all of us. Then...
Image credit: KWB - Ubuntu Hope via AI. Never underestimate your own ability, not just to imagine innovative solutions but to transform them into (more) successful businesses.
