Don’t study or train for a job. Do it for ideas

Steve Okeyo, Managing Director for Mobile at Telkom Kenya

I love mornings for its crisp, cold air. I enjoy my morning runs better than my evening runs, and to be honest, I go for evening runs when I feel guilty after not exercising for a while. My days are not always regular. I wake up at 5 or 6am and go for a run that takes up about 40 minutes. I’ll then get ready for work, have breakfast and I’ll be at the office at around 7.30am. But if I’ll be working in other regions, say Mombasa or Kisumu, I get up at 4am to be on a flight by 6am.

My job entails making sure that we run the business according to plan. Every business has a plan in terms of the number of customers you need to serve in a day, the amount of revenue you’re tracking and how your products are doing. I monitor that on a day to day basis. The ultimate goal is to make sure that we’re creating more value for both our customers and the company.