In this column, I deal with issues of transformational governance that I consider to be exemplary and worth modelling in the country and indeed in the African continent. The scope is a broad one with the issues ranging from law, human rights, organisational management, economics and business leadership. Although there is a tendency by columnists to digress and address issues that are tangential to their scope, I hope to remain on course. From my many international trips my belief that learning is a continuous life-long process has been reinforced. Learning is not only in the classroom but seeing and hearing things outside, even in a relaxed, casual environment. The Japanese speak of kaizen, which encapsulates the spirit of continuous improvement, a concept well ventilated in the Art of Japanese Management by Prof. Richard Tanner Pascale (1981). Interestingly, Botswana can learn a lot from the Eastern countries. Unfortunately, for a long time we have been unidirectional, looking only at the West for best-practice benchmark. This explains why it is only now that we are seeing value in the donkey as an economic asset. For a long time we have encumbered ourselves with pedantic European standards of meat preparation and our beef…