Internet means the ‘international network.’ Internet works like the transport road system. Uganda is currently finalizing plans of constructing a joint railway connecting to Kenya, Tanzania and then Rwanda. The question is “who is going to police which section of the railway?” When it comes a physical road, the boundaries are very clear. You are able to know where a given road starts and stops. Where the roads starts and ends, the laws of that country prevail. In that case, you can easily policy the road network. If an accident happens on a road section in a certain country, the…
Role models vs mentors
Let’s not compare the two. We actually need both of them. We need to have people whom you look up to. In Uganda, we have a lot of challenges. People just want to steal because the people they look up did not get money in the right way. They are maybe very few who have attained success in the right way. However, these are not documented. The people being documented have a lot of black spots when you try tracing how they got the money. Many entrepreneurs find unexplained gaps when they try to look up to some individuals in…
Entrepreneurship vs formal employment
We need to get some things right. Not everyone can be an entrepreneur. There are some people who are born leaders. They can start something and nurture it. But most of the time we have seen that even if you are going to be a good entrepreneur, you need some minimum grounding to get insights on how to run a business. Either you have a mentor who is an entrepreneur or go into formal employment and learn from the best professionals. The advantage of entrepreneurship is that you can cut a lot of time in your path to career success.…
Essential skills for your career success
To succeed, you need to have intellectual firepower. Put stuff into your head. You need to have the minimum foundation for your success.But mostly importantly, being human is key. You must be able to go into any room, read the moment and be able to make the right actions based on the feelings of the environment. However, this is one of the most unavailable skills to most young professionals especially executives from backgrounds of insufficient.They fall into power. They develop a tendency of gathering huge fat of ego that stands into their way of success. Once you have intellectual firepower…
Sam. F. Owori: A jolly good fellow
Sam Frobisher Owori, a man of great humility and integrity, died on July 13th, aged 76. He achieved more moral capital, most people just dream of. No one quite believed the late evening news that Sam was gone! Where, we all asked. It just wasn’t adding up: death as a result of surgery on the left leg in a US hospital! I too, refuted. It cannot be true. He had just said good bye. He had done so several times that it became normal. He always returned as promised. That was Samuel Frobisher Owori – very calm, yet firm and…
Who doesn’t need the ‘big four’ audit firm experience?
There are few professions that are life changing like working in ‘big four’ audit firm. The cross industry experience. Daily late night working hours. The urgent proposal adrenaline. Over demanding clients. Very competitive team of peers. Endless assignments. Very ‘lazy’ clients. The end of month time sheets and work plans. The overzealous supervisors. And many more make it a worthy experience. You have to stay on top of your game to keep the job. The big four audit firms in our country (Uganda) recruit on merit based on two key criterions– (i) the folks who will do the jobs. And…
