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Louis Janse van Rensburg
The value in knowing your True North
Welcome to Season 2 of One More Question.
In Season 2, Episode #1 Ross sat down with Louis Janse van Rensburg, CEO at Glengarry Capital and Chairman of the Heavy Chef Foundation.
Ross and Louis talk about how Heavy Chef got started, how clarity of purpose can be a powerful tool in business, the challenge of scaling purpose alongside the organisation, and Heavy Chef’s work in the entrepreneurial space — from research to inspiration and education.
Highlights
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
More about Louis
Louis 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.
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