Louis Janse van Rensburg - The value in knowing your True North

More about Louis Janse van RensburgLouis Janse van Rensburg is the CEO at Glengarry Capital, Founder of WonderClass, and a partner in Heavy Chef and the Chairman of the Heavy Chef Foundation. He is fascinated by the evolution of learning and its impact on helping humans flourish.Louis is also a Phd researcher on the future of learning and most recently spearheaded the launch of South Africa's largest study ever conducted on the learning habits of entrepreneurs. Creative, optimistic and pragmatic, Louis weaves storytelling with empirical data to challenge us to reimagine the way humans learn. He also is an amateur screenplay writer, pizza lover and known to hit a mean 4-iron.Find Louis here:WebsiteLinkedInHeavy Chef FoundationFind Glengarry Capital here:WebsiteFind Heavy Chef here:WebsiteInstagramTwitterFacebookYouTubeLinkedInHighlights from the conversation:08:40 — If you go a level deeper, you really start figuring out that's just the marketing message, that's just the story. What drives it? What motivation drives it?10:00 — Whether you've articulated it or not, all organisations have a purpose.12:05 — The challenge is, when you start growing as a business, you need to start scaling your purpose. You need to get people to believe in the purpose, but also start living and breathing that purpose and communicating it to others, and that's where it becomes really hard. It's certainly an art, not a science.15:35 — When building out a team, I'd go for someone whose values are more aligned with yours, but their skill set is relatively mediocre over someone who has a very strong skill set, but their values are a bit out of sync.32:53 — My motivation was to find people that share the same values. What that actually translates to in practice is, that when the shit hits the fan, that these are the people that you can trust.37:07 — That's how you should be starting your business or building your brand. You should be selecting a group of people that share this common vision, have positive energy, and are driving you and everything else forward.37:35 — We see it in our financial performance as well. When there's clarity of purpose, this clarity of what you do has a real domino effect — your people start working more intelligently, are more focussed, driving towards the same goal. Then your customers start picking up on it, they start asking you more questions and they start engaging with you more because they know what it is you are doing and they want to be part of that. Show NotesPeople:Robbie BrozinThabo MbekiOrganisations:Heavy ChefWorld Wide CreativeFerrari South AfricaNandosCape Town Startup WeekEntrepreneurs OrganisationPlaces:Joburg / JohannesburgCape TownSouth AfricaKZN / KwaZulu-NatalGugulethuMiscellaneous:SpringboksMiss Universe 2019Proteas NetballHow can you help?There are four ways you can help us out.Give us your thoughts. Rate the podcast and leave a comment.Share this as far and wide as you can - tell your friends, family and colleagues about us (caveat: if you own a family business, these may all be the same people)Tell us how we can create a better podcast - tell us what you liked, didn’t like, or what you’d like to hear more (or less) ofTell us who you’d like to hear on the podcast. Suggest someone that you think we should interview.One More Question is a podcast by Nicework a Brand and Service Design Company. One of the things we do best is asking our clients the right questions. This podcast came about because we want to share some of the best answers we have heard over the last 12 years. We talk to significant creators, experts and communicators who we have encountered. To share the useful insights, inspirations and facts that made us stop and take notes as we go about our work. Hosted by our Founder Ross Drakes.Subscribe iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google PodcastsMusic by: @dcuttermusic / http://www.davidcuttermusic.com
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