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Why being open minded is the best skill as tradition gets disrupted

Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, Chief Financial Services Officer at Safaricom PLC.

Today’s world is very different from the one I walked into after leaving high school about 25 years ago. A recent estimate by the World Economic Forum shows that more than six of every ten children getting into primary school today will work in careers that do not exist today.  

In 1994, many of jobs or employers today did not exist. Since then, there has been a tremendous change driven by technology resulting in thousands of new careers.

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