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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

346: Seizing Career Opportunities with AstroLabs’ Muhammed Mekki

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Self-improvement, Meaning, Winning, Development, Money, Interview, Writing, Health & Fitness, Speaking, Mental Health, Success, Wins, Fun, Skills, Business, Careers, Training, Education, Collaboration, Decisions, Career, Selfhelp, Mockaitis, Thinking

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Muhammed Mekki lays out how to optimize your career opportunities.   You'll Learn: Why NOT to over-plan your career How to identify and capitalize on each career opportunity The nobility of management   About Muhammed:  Muhammed is a Founding Partner at AstroLabs, a startup hub and training academy for tech entrepreneurs in the Middle East. AstroLabs Dubai is a specialized coworking space that hosts high potential digital technology companies, assisting founders to establish their startups and providing them with a platform to scale globally. AstroLabs Academy delivers a variety of practical training courses on topics related to digital business. Prior to AstroLabs, Muhammed co-founded Dubai-based Namshi, now one of the largest ecommerce companies in the MENA region. He built and led the operations teams and helped raise venture capital funding to fuel the company’s growth. Muhammed is a former McKinsey & Company strategy consultant with clients across the GCC. Muhammed received an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He was selected for a full academic scholarship as a Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Fellow based on professional achievements as well as a demonstrated commitment to the development of the Arab World. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania as a member of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business.   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep346 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fund, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:19.0

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode

0:21.0

346 with Mohammed Mecky.

0:23.2

I'm excited to share this conversation with Mohammed

0:25.5

with you because Mohammed's a guy I've just known and liked and admired

0:29.2

and appreciated.

0:30.3

For years, Met him in high school, we've stayed in touch and he's got a world of wisdom to share.

0:36.0

It's funny back in the day people asked me,

0:38.0

wait, which one of your buddies is Mohammed? I'd say Mohammed is the guy who's most likely to become a billionaire of my network.

0:44.6

And so I think it's a thing that we're talking about seizing career opportunities.

0:47.9

So you're going to learn one, why not to overplan your career?

0:51.3

Two, how to identify and capitalize on each career opportunity, and three, the

0:55.2

nobility of management.

0:57.4

So if you want to take a look at the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we've

1:00.5

referenced, you'll find that over at awesome at your job

1:02.8

dot com slash Epp 346. Now here's Mohammed's story Mohammed is a

1:07.2

founding partner at Astro Labs a startup hub and training academy for tech

1:11.0

entrepreneurs in the Middle East.

1:13.0

Aster Labs Dubai is a specialized co-working space

1:15.5

that hosts high potential digital technology companies

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