You have a choice: Join a company and pursue a low-risk career, pay the bills, retire when you’re 65; or Start your own business, have highs, have lows, flirt with disaster, hopefully make a lot of money, never retire. The former is a life where the days are hard to distinguish from another. The latter is a…
We have all made mistakes in life. We all have regrets. The difference between those that recover to go on to success, and those that don’t, is the ability to put the mistakes behind them and move forward. Stop wallowing, flagellating, and ruminating. What is done is done. Triumphs or disasters, wins and failures, successes…
I believe marketing is the work an organisation or person does when they tell a story that resonates with us. Marketing is the product we make, the service we offer or the life we live. Marketing [the use of time and money to create a story and spread it] works. Human beings don't make…
If you want to follow your dreams to be an entrepreneur, you need to become comfortable with not knowing what is going to happen tomorrow. You need to be comfortable with uncertainty. Do everything you can to increase your tolerance for uncertainty. Put yourself in a position where there is no such thing as an…
“It's amazing what you can accomplish if you don’t mind who gets the credit.” Harry Truman A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong. Every time you try to take credit, check yourself. Why do you need the credit? If the job…
Most of the time, startup life is not a great big epic adventure. It is just one thing leading to the next thing, and you trying to survive. The greatest businesses often start with a simple task. A small job. A nondescript problem. Not only does it feel your mission is petty, but the experience rarely seems enjoyable when you are enduring…
It's tempting to compare everything to a race: Life. Kids. Business. The very meaning of “race” is to compare: Are you faster than the other person? But some things are not comparable. They are not relative. Some things are absolute. For example, your children. It doesn’t matter how they compare up to other kids, it only matters…
Loyalty. A simple word. And yet one of the most complicated concepts in our world… What is loyalty? It is having your partner’s back. Always. It is going into battle knowing that the man on your right and the man on your left are with you, no matter what. You can move forward without fear…
Entrepreneurship is about creating change. Changing people's lives, perceptions or conversations. Successful change is not general, it is specific. You don't have a chance to make mass change, but you can make focused change. When you bring change, you can't be everything to everyone. Whether you are looking for an investor, or a partner, or…
Humans tends to look for people who will say yes to us more often. Yes men and women makes you feel like we are on the right track. These are people who idolizes you, and take everything you say as gospel truth. It makes you feel good. As entrepreneurs, we tend to choose teammates that…
The other day I had an interesting small talk with my friend Luvuyo Rani, owner of Silulo Ulutho Technologies that has more than 30 branches in the Eastern and Western Cape and now in KwaZulu Natal and was voted JCI Outstanding Young Person of the World 2014. RM: Mhlekazi [Sir] why haven't you done a…
What you choose to work on today is largely a function of what your goals are. Buckminster Fuller suggested: “The farther out you are willing to look, the easier it is to answer the question, ‘What should I work on this afternoon?’” If you are working toward a goal of what needs accomplished by this…
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