Mohamed Alabbar, the man whose company built Burj Khalifa knows a thing or two about scaling great heights in the business world.
Mr. Alabbar shared his story starting off by showing a black-and-white photo of a dhow, taken in the 1950s when he was a child and Dubai was a quiet fishing port. It was his father’s ship, said Mr. Alabbar. “As captain of a ship, my father took risks, he went into the unknown. He sailed with no GPS, no weather forecast, there were pirates at sea, and these ships used to leak. Who chooses to sail for days on end with that in mind? You have to be brave and learn how to make big decisions.”
Read the full feature in The National.