Nairobi, April 8 -- "Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think," said astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

It's a cliche to say small and medium enterprises (SME) dominate the Kenyan economy. Creating jobs and providing services and products, Kenyan SME may constitute up to 98 percent of all formal and informal businesses. Is it possible to flip the conventional wisdom, following the thought of a Persian mystic?

"You are not a drop in the ocean, you are an ocean in a drop" advised Rumi, almost 800 years ago. How does one leverage the advantage of being tiny? Is it possible to think differently about the problem of being like a water droplet?

Not more, but less exceptionally well: For some, small busi...