If you walk around your community especially in big urban centres of Uganda, you will most likely come across an incomplete building that has been there for years. Unoccupied and abandoned yet when you look at the investment at that stage, lots of millions were invested (to buy the land and then construct). Sometimes on a single plot, there will be a couple of such buildings. The obvious reason for such buildings, which are mainly apartments or rentals, is lack of money. The owner either lost a job or didn’t plan properly with the money available when starting. Also, if…
Covid19: A time to change or be forced to change
We are all heading into the future, that is where our thinking should focus on. No one can predict the future with precision. We use historical data to anticipate what will happen. Since pandemics do not have specific characteristics, no one would have predicted when the coronavirus pandemic would happen. It took the world by surprise. No wonder all countries badly affected, with death numbers rising by the day. In the United States alone, the total number of covid19 death is past 50,000! Globally, the death numbers keep rising every other day. That is a huge loss to the world.…
What was your life when growing up? Have you hardened your mind?
If you are reading this, you have never experienced anything like coronavirus. This is your first time to experience a virus of pandemic proportions. Welcome to the world. Our lives have been disrupted. What many people thought they could never do without; coronavirus has taken away. What people thought they could never do; coronavirus has made them do it. For the first time in the history of mankind, anyone with children has had to live with them for more than a week! So what was your life growing up? Who are you? Which schools did you attend? Which games did…
How to speak to influence, not merely inform
It is difficult to become a great leader without mastering the art of communication, specifically public speaking. Leaders become great because they inspire, energize, motivate, and uplift others. The ability to deliver very difficult news to people is one of the great qualities of leaders. We now live in covid19 times. The world needs leaders who can speak with clarity, confidence, and give hope of a brighter future. People want briefings that explain the state of the problem, the projected extent of the problem –showing the base case and worst-case scenarios and plans to address any situation. And above all,…
A lesson Ugandans need to learn from COVID 19 is to plan for a bad day even when it may take one thousand to happen!
The value of strategic planning and self-discipline are points that most Ugandans have delegated to some category of people, yet we all need these qualities at all times. There are things we learn in school while others are out of common sense. We need to keep in mind that without self-discipline, self-motivation, a culture of financial saving and strategic planning; then we are in for a rude shock. Some of us never thought that one day we could find ourselves living in bad days almost every day. Were most of us prepared to face these bad day? The answer…
Have you considered the impact of covid19 on your current strategy?
No company would have planned and considered the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the business. Many leaders finalize their planning and work plans by December of the year – where they review the strategy, scorecard targets, budgets, work plans, and planned outcomes against what was achieved. By December 2020, coronavirus was not yet a big thing. Few companies, if any, could have anticipated and adjusted their strategies and financials accordingly at the time. Now that covid19 has happened, leaders must urgently go back to the drawing table and make updates to their strategy, and work plans or business plans…
