People in positions of power know how easy it is to be superficial. Everyone wants an email address, or phone number, a business card, or just the opportunity to pitch a new idea.
Being in demand often comes with symptoms of attention deficit disorder. Nunu Ntshingila is different.
For one, she is a quiet Soweto girl who, despite knowing nearly nothing about
advertising, worked her way up the corporate ladder before being elevated to the position of Chairman at Ogilvy & Mather South Africa, one of the continent's largest agencies.
Now, as head of Facebook for Africa, she finds herself navigating an expansion phase where she will need to carefully manage the staggering growth of the social platform.
" There are a number of things that I can see when I take a step back and look at my journey, beginning on the day I started at Ogilvy. I think the first and most important one is the ability to open one's mind to the opportunities that come.
"I did not study advertising or creativity, that is not the career that I had in mind for myself. But what happens in life, in your career journey, is that, along the way, opportunities come along.
"I always encourage young people to keep their minds open to new ideas and where life might take them. Openness is an important attribute as you grow through a career, and in life. Openness is about the ability to learn, to learn over and over, and to learn fast."
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