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Jun 2024
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#34- Kamil Najjar (Founder & CEO of Kids...

Tarek Bayaa
About this episode

Kamil Najjar is a trailblazing business leader with a massively successful career spanning beauty, media and education. His career culminated with him starting Kids First Group in 2011 and is today the leading early education platform across the GCC.

Kamil shares the importance of innovation as a means to sustain a competitive edge. He does show by sharing interesting examples of why innovation isn’t just a buzzword, and how it can be implemented in low cost yet effective ways. We discuss the importance of attitude in team members and how it takes precedence over other qualifications, and so much more.

I heard Kamil say:

  • The basics of business are the same regardless of the industry
  • Attitude over aptitude defines your altitude
  • Face the brutal facts in life and business
  • Break down the customer journey starting with the “zero moment of truth”

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