If you are one of the folks who love great management insights, you open the pages of the Harvard Business Review magazine – old and new issues alike. Me too. Today, I landed on the May-June 2017 issue. On page 19, is an advert by Microsoft Cloud, with a captivating title: “The Mission What is technology could stop the next epidemic before it happens? Microsoft and its partners are using smart traps to capture mosquitoes and sequence their DNA to identify new diseases early.  Machine Learning New mosquito traps are getting smarter every day. These traps measure distinct patterns of…

Aga Sekalala Snr’s brilliance for business and risk-taking shines in this compelling easy to read 175 pages book. In the first quarter of Aga’s biography, he recounts how a chance encounter with Joseph Nyerere, brother to Tanzania’s statesman Julius Nyerere, a great Pan- Africanist, changed the course of his life. Just like that, “Joseph unexpectedly asked me whether I would represent them at a conference in Denmark, despite not being Tanzanian…” Thanks to Joseph’s recommendations, Aga applied and got a British passport. And on he travelled to Denmark and got the opportunity to traverse Europe which changed is life’s perspectives…