{"id":3760,"date":"2026-09-03T20:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xpand.one\/sa\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2026-09-03T20:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:45:23","slug":"entrepreneur-or-problem-solver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xpand.one\/sa\/entrepreneur-or-problem-solver\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneur or Problem Solver?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3760\" class=\"elementor elementor-3760\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9d1e7a6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"9d1e7a6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-59c48d7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"59c48d7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/xpand.one\/sa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/towfiqu-barbhuiya-Jxi526YIQgA-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-3761\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xpand.one\/sa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/towfiqu-barbhuiya-Jxi526YIQgA-unsplash-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/xpand.one\/sa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/towfiqu-barbhuiya-Jxi526YIQgA-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xpand.one\/sa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/towfiqu-barbhuiya-Jxi526YIQgA-unsplash-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/xpand.one\/sa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/towfiqu-barbhuiya-Jxi526YIQgA-unsplash-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/xpand.one\/sa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/towfiqu-barbhuiya-Jxi526YIQgA-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/xpand.one\/sa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/towfiqu-barbhuiya-Jxi526YIQgA-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/xpand.one\/sa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/towfiqu-barbhuiya-Jxi526YIQgA-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-07ff70c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"07ff70c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f7ce23e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f7ce23e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Entrepreneur or Problem Solver?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fb39aef e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"fb39aef\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4f2a3eb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4f2a3eb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">What if some of the biggest challenges in society are also some of its biggest opportunities? <\/span><\/em><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">It is an uncomfortable question. Unemployment, water insecurity, inequality, food insecurity and limited access to essential services are not abstract issues. They affect millions of people&#8217;s everyday lives, and many of these challenges seem far too big for an individual or a small business to change. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">So we naturally look to government, large corporations and institutions with the resources and influence to tackle problems at scale. And rightly so. Many of the challenges require systemic solutions and collaboration across society. But what if we also asked a different question? <\/span><b style=\"font-style: inherit;\">What if solving a small part of a big problem could become the beginning of something much bigger? <\/b><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">That is where entrepreneurship \u2013 and, more specifically, entrepreneurial leadership \u2013 has an important role to play in society.<\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"p1\"><em>Seeing what others overlook<\/em><\/p><p class=\"p2\">Entrepreneurship is often associated with having a great idea, starting a company and making money. But the starting point is usually much simpler: <b>notice something that isn&#8217;t working and ask whether it could work differently. <\/b>Entrepreneurs pay attention to frustrations, inefficiencies and unmet needs. They don&#8217;t necessarily have all the answers. What sets them apart is their willingness to investigate the problem, imagine an alternative and take action. A powerful example emerged from one of South Africa&#8217;s most visible challenges of recent years.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"p1\"><em>The WiBox story<\/em><\/p><p class=\"p2\">During the country&#8217;s load-shedding crisis, University of Cape Town postgraduate students Brian Gadisi, Alan Gie and Thembalethu Hadebe experienced a problem familiar to millions of South Africans: when the electricity went off, so did their internet connection. For students and people working remotely, this was more than an inconvenience. Losing connectivity could interrupt work, learning and communication. The founders could have simply accepted it as another consequence of load-shedding.<\/p><p class=\"p2\">Instead, they asked a different question: <b>Do we really need to keep everything powered \u2013 or do we just need to keep the Wi-Fi running?<\/b><b><\/b><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"p2\">That insight led to the development of WiBox, a compact backup-power solution for routers and fibre connections. What began as a practical solution to a problem they were experiencing themselves developed into Arion Power, with products reaching major retailers. They didn&#8217;t set out to solve South Africa&#8217;s energy crisis. Instead, they identified a specific problem created by the crisis and asked whether they could solve it. <b>They solved one problem within a much bigger problem.<\/b><b><\/b><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"p2\">And that distinction is at the heart of entrepreneurial thinking. The lesson is not that every problem should become a business. It is that <b>entrepreneurs learn to look beneath the obvious problem to find the unmet need. <\/b>That ability to notice, question and act is increasingly valuable in a world where circumstances change quickly. The problem that needs solving today may not be the problem that needs solving tomorrow. Entrepreneurial thinking requires us to keep looking, listening and adapting.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"p1\"><em>Entrepreneurial leadership is bigger than entrepreneurship<\/em><\/p><p class=\"p2\">This is where entrepreneurship becomes a leadership issue. You don&#8217;t need to be a business owner to think entrepreneurially. An employee who challenges an inefficient process is demonstrating entrepreneurial thinking. A manager who identifies an unmet customer need and turns it into a new service is doing the same. A team that finds a better way to use limited resources is creating value. The common thread is <b>ownership<\/b>.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"p2\">Instead of saying, <i>\u201cThat&#8217;s not my problem,\u201d<\/i> entrepreneurial leaders ask, <b>\u201cWhat can I do about it?\u201d <\/b>This mindset matters inside established organisations just as much as it does in start-ups. South Africa needs people who are willing to challenge the status quo, experiment, learn from failure and turn ideas into action.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"p1\"><em>We shouldn&#8217;t romanticise the struggle<\/em><\/p><p class=\"p2\">Challenges should not be romanticised simply because they can create entrepreneurial opportunities. Unemployment is not an opportunity to the person who cannot find work. Water insecurity is not an opportunity to the family struggling to access clean water. Inequality is not an opportunity to someone who has been excluded from economic participation.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"p2\">Entrepreneurs are not substitutes for effective government, infrastructure or public services. They are part of a much bigger ecosystem. Good ideas need access to finance, skills, mentorship, markets, infrastructure and supportive policies if they are to become sustainable businesses. Creating that environment is a shared responsibility. The role of entrepreneurial leadership is not to suggest that individuals can solve every problem themselves. It is to encourage more people to recognise where they <b>can<\/b> make a difference \u2013 and to have the courage to act.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"p1\"><em>The opportunity for Society<\/em><\/p><p class=\"p2\">Society doesn&#8217;t simply need more people who want to start businesses. It needs <b>people who are willing to take responsibility for creating solutions<\/b>. The WiBox story captures this mindset beautifully. Three young people encountered a problem that many others had simply learned to live with. Rather than accepting it, they looked at it differently, identified a specific need and built a solution. That solution became a business.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"p2\">So perhaps the question we should be asking is not, <i>\u201cHow do we fix all our problems?\u201d<\/i> That is too big a question for any one person, business or institution. Perhaps we should ask: <b>\u201cWhat problem can I help solve?\u201d <\/b><b><\/b>Because meaningful change doesn&#8217;t always begin with solving the biggest problem. <b>Sometimes it begins with noticing one small problem and refusing to accept that it has to stay that way.<\/b><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Blog written by <strong>Monique Raaths<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes entrepreneurship begins with noticing one small problem and refusing to accept that it has to stay that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"content-type":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-your-business"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Entrepreneur or Problem Solver? 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