Fast Company South Africa

Necessity as the Mother of Invention

The history of innovation is often written as a story of technological breakthroughs—silicon chips, software, rockets, and artificial intelligence. In this issue we take a different approach by firstly focusing - through our cover feature - on an...

The Inflection Point

Every corporate resurrection has an inflection point — a moment when leaders decide that the past is not destiny. For Telkom, that pivot required abandoning the psychology of a monopoly and embracing the mindset of a competitor. It meant trading...

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TECH BILLIONAIRES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW CITIES.

In 2020, Marc Andreessen—the investor behind some of the most influential tech companies of the modern era—wrote: “Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of...

THE NEW NORMAL - HOW “BUSINESS FOR GOOD” WENT BAD

C“Capitalism as we know it is dead.” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made that proclamation at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in 2019. “We’re going to see a new kind of capitalism,” he went on. “IF YOUR ORIENTATION IS JUST ABOUT MAKING money, I don’t...