CEO Round Table Event - 27 Feb / 26 Mar

The Alternative Board - South Africa

Willowbrook Avenue, 1709, Roodepoort, GP, South Africa

Mark Kaminsky

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If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business – you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world, because you’re working for a lunatic!”Michael E. Gerber.I have always been fascinated with running my own business. To control my own destiny and dream while pursuing my passion and purpose.The problem though, like most entrepreneurs, we are all a bit extreme, or in Michael Gerber’s words, a lunatic.But it’s about connecting the dots… the journey has to start somewhere.I spent my first 13 years in business working in the corporate world, but quickly became frustrated with its apathy.This fueled my passion to be an entrepreneur and take control of my destiny.For the past 20 years I have worked as an entrepreneur, following a journey that sometimes ended in failure, and sometimes success. But as Michel Jordan said, “I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."As long as I have failed forward, I count it as a win.In 2014, my partners and I started another business calledFitChef, a specialized health food company. Together we built a business from the ground up as we successfully created a brand that dominated the online healthy frozen food industry, as we scaled the business rapidly throughout South Africa.As an owner of The Alternative Board in Gauteng, I work with business owners to build business that run themselves.Connecting the dots as I look back, it has never been about arriving at the destination of owning a business. It has always been about the journey of discovering the boundaries of what is possible, and inspiring others to do more.The journey taught me the most valuable lesson – none of us is as good as all of us.Shared wisdom leads to bottom line success!