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This interview with Dangote is pure gold.
One key takeaway that hit me hard (and he said it himself about his top management): “When you wake them late at night, they will tell you the process of every part of our business.”
That’s the culture of ownership he built at Dangote Group.
As an entrepreneur, you must know the business inside out.
You can’t sell what you don’t fully understand.
You can’t buy what you haven’t studied.
And you definitely can’t build something you haven’t clearly envisioned.
His top team doesn’t just manage, they own the vision, the numbers, the operations. That level of mastery is why he scaled from trading cement in 1978 to a $45 billion empire across Africa.
No shortcuts.
Deep knowledge + relentless ownership = the real difference between building something big and just running a business.
Every African entrepreneur needs to watch this.
jerome@readJerome
The CEO of Norway's sovereign wealth fund has a podcast. And he interviewed Dangote. Find it and listen.
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