Switzerland
Entrepreneur Daniel Hansen has a unique outlook on the world of work, surrounding his business, collaborators and clients with people who are innovative, creative and as passionate about work as they are about quality of life.
I'll admit it: I only know one way to do business - to take the personal approach. I've always talked about how I think the only way to be truly successful is to deal with people, not companies, and that still stands.
What exactly does an intelligent business strategy really look like in this day and age? It's an important question, and one that I find myself thinking about a lot, particularly when I look at the way I communicate with my team.
I'm often asked about creativity, and my approach to nurturing it in the organisation I run. I guess it's largely down to the approach that OMNIA takes as a business - in any given situation, we are constantly looking at how we can contribute to it creatively.
I can completely understand why modern investors still make mistakes, choose the wrong opportunities or take on too much risk, even given the amount of information that's available to them. Here's my take on what I think is going on in the minds of many modern investors.
Volunteering is a big part of Daniel Hansen's life. On the face of it, nothing to be gained from giving your time up to help others - but of course, it is, as many people will testify, one of the most transformative things you can do with your life.
Daniel Hansen has an active investing approach - looking for opportunities to beat the benchmark on a particular investment, and hunting for opportunities that will outperform its index. A product developed at OMNIA, reflects this approach - one that looks for investment opportunities in lean, fast-moving enterprises.
Throughout Daniel Hansen's career as an entrepreneur, He has struck deals - some large, some small, some that he's been pleased with, some not so. But what's the first, and most important lesson that Daniel has learned about deal-making? Well, you might be surprised.
Here's a prediction for you: good stories will never stop being important. I've been thinking about this a lot recently, as it becomes more and more clear that the entertainment industry is going through yet another period of dramatic change.
It's become fashionable now for companies to have some sort of ethical element to their operations - every other company today seems to have a CSR or charitable vision of some sort, and often some pretty well-thought out strategies for reaching those goals.
I don't know if I'll ever settle for the status quo. Of course I'm happy with the life that I've worked so hard to create for myself, my family and friends, but I'm just not the kind of person who says 'this will do'.