As I had just landed back in Europe, excited to start my new life, I went to see one of my old bosses to announce my availability. Albeit happy to see me back in Europe, he told me: “Mina – you can’t do it all. You need to focus on one thing. That one thing…
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A call for @GaryVee
Hi Mr Gary, I’m Mina. You’re solar power for my partner. And I’d be ultra grateful if you’d consider sending him a Happy 30th message. We’ve got a start-up in Ghana and do Meaningful Marketing for international companies mostly. I’m Swedish, he’s Spanish. I’m process. He’s branding and big ideas. We’re partners in business and real…
Social Capital as a Consequence of Great Leadership
I’d really love to see Ken Robinson for a visit at the Ashesi University in Ghana. Another great mind of all times who deeply understands and spreads ideas about the future of education, in TED Talks like “Do schools kill creativity?” or with books such as “The Element. How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”. The…
Hans Rosling: You can’t use media if you want to understand the world
Hans Rosling, the master of making statistics fun was recently in an interview with Danish television. The journalist tried to get him to succumb to the terrible status of the world that the media keeps displaying, giving as an example the terror facing Nigeria. Rosling counters with: “Yes, sure there’s terror in a SMALL part…
Ghana overview – via Worldfolio
Over the last two decades, Ghana has evolved into a model for political and economic reform in Africa, as well as a beacon of progress, democracy and stability. As the first place in sub-Saharan Africa where Europeans arrived to trade, Ghana later became the first nation in the region to achieve independence from a colonial…
Will you be the next Mina?
Interested? Send a link to your video to lada.jurica@ep.europa.eu or Tweet it with hashtag #NextMina Deadline for application 3 May. Good luck! /Mina