I’m currently reading about a young man, Tony Hsieh who at age 24 sold a company he co-founded for $265 million. At 34 he sold yet another company he’d co-founded for $1.2 BILLION! What I’m getting from his story, so far, is not that he’s ultra rich now or that he became a sterling success…
Someone recently asked me what this new found passion I’m pursuing was. Here’s the thing I can tell you and it won’t make one ounce of difference to your life. The issue is not what I’m doing with my life; it’s what you’re doing with yours. In my post The Pursuit of Wow I wrote…
What Father says about interracial marriage A young man who loves God contacted me a while ago and asked me about my marriage. He was white, Afrikaans and living in what was a predominantly conservative white community in South Africa. He was in love with a black woman. I cannot say what he wrote to…
This week I feel I made it big on a business deal I’ve been working on for months. I say “feel” because I’m not so sure if I won as big as I think I did. A more objective person could come along and say: “Oh boy Hannah – you got the short end of…
When I was fourteen I heard a sermon from Dr Myles Munroe that would forever change my life. And haunt me. As I sat among hundreds of people listening to this Bahamian preacher – I, for the first time heard about purpose. For the first time in all my fourteen years I was being told…
If you think this post is too long – you’re in trouble. I’m hungry for knowledge – famished even. I’ve been gobbling business literature as though my very life depends on it. Well my business does. My recent obsession and increased appetite for amassing as much knowledge as I possibly can came from the need…
So one of my brothers will probably hate me for saying this – but I’ll ask his forgiveness later. He’s been talking about writing a book I think South Africa desperately needs. It’s a simple, quite obvious, form of marketing which is why I think he’ll do so well with it. Problem – he’s still…
May I speak with you in person? Those are perhaps the most underestimated seven words in business. In a world where we’ve never had more ways to communicate I agree with those who say that truly never have we been so disconnected. In business the mostly commonly used channels of communication are emails and phone…
While most people in my time zone were sleeping this morning here’s what I eventually figured out – there isn’t time for “just great.” Today I found out that really cutting edge companies treat their prospective employees with tremendous pizzazz so that even before the candidate they want works for them they are already the…