TRIBUTE: Five important things we can learn from Bob Collymore

Man is mortal. There is a time to be born; there is a time to live during which you enjoy and suffer, and there is a time to die. Robert William Collymore passed through all those stages at high notes. He was born in the Cooperative Republic of Guyana 61 years ago where he lived for about 16 years then joined his mother in the United Kingdom. He schooled in the UK, hustled for a while as a commuter train announcer, an insurance underwriter and a telecom clerk. He rose through the ranks in various telephony companies until he became Kenya's Safaricom Public Limited Company CEO.

From his life below are some of the lessons one can draw;