Creative destruction is why start-ups will survive the pandemic
Unlike entrepreneurial start-ups, corporates are not lean, nimble or agile enough to search for a new business model
2020 rocked everyone’s world and challenged every belief system we had — not least the assumption that having a plan always pay off. Didn’t we all have a strategic plan for 2020? Are any of us working on that same plan now?
2021 will bring more of the same uncertainty. In fact, I believe 2021 will be worse on a macro-level for our economies, jobs and livelihoods. These difficulties will be intensified across Africa as it is unlikely we’ll be able to roll out the vaccine at the same speed and scale as the global North. We are also seeing new variants of the virus that threaten to keep much of Africa on lockdown for some time to come...
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