Nairobi, Feb. 16 -- A conversation with lady X prompted me to write about entrepreneurial culture in businesses. Lady X is a very innovative lawyer who worked in one of the "old school" law firms.

She hated her job because it was not challenging. She held a meeting with her boss and suggested to him that they could venture into new areas of law practice.

"Like which ones?" asked her clueless boss. "We could try artificial intelligence and emerging laws," she replied.

The boss looked at her through his thick-rimmed glasses and told her, " we do not practice those kinds of law here! Get out."

Lady X wrote her resignation letter as she could not bear the thought of crisscrossing Kenya and defending petty criminals in courts all over the ...