Tendayi Viki: Helping Elephants Do Ballet

How do you help a company develop a ‘startup’ mindset that lasts even while they are doing their regular day-to-day work? How do you do strategy in an iterative way? How can you help successful companies worry about the future in spite of a comfortable present?

Tendayi Viki comments on what he calls “helping elephants do ballet”.

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