Get a copy of any strategic plan, and you will see lots of analysis paralysis but no strategy. The simple test is: what is the strategy in the strategic plan document? Many leaders have a document named a strategic plan when such a document is a research paper. It has lots of SWOT – strengths, and weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis listed. You find the entire section of the analysis, micro, and macro-economic reviews but no input to strategy. Such ‘literature review is so generic that you change the name of the company, it fits perfectly for another company.’ Many…
Uganda #Covid19 Status Update: Managing a pandemic
Kampala: 19th April 2020 – The President made another address to the nation on the state of the #covid19. Unlike previous updates, this time around there have been few social media commentaries about the Presidential address. This could mean that the address is starting to become more of the same. The president started by thanking the health workers. “I want to thank and congratulate our health workers. They have done a wonderful job. They were not well prepared, but with the little they got, they managed to treat the 55 coronavirus-positive patients. And the consequence: no death” He also thanked…
Zero to One by Peter Thiel is our Week 4, Book 4, April 2020 – read One Book Weekly and thrive
Get a copy of the book, Zero to One, and transform your thinking with original ideas. Few books challenge your current positions and outlook. Zero to one is such a book. In this world full of copycats, Zero to One, will empower you to think differently and win. According to Peter Thiel, the author who is an entrepreneur and investor and co-founded PayPal and Palantir, each moment happens once. Do not try to copy the Google model and expect to succeed. Such a moment happened once. So was Amazon, or social networking site Facebook. The point is folks who think…
Your Marriage is not a mistake, this is the mistake
Most of the time when marriage is in trouble, people tend to see their Marriage as a mistake. They regret marrying the person they Married, they think of a new deal, they imagined marrying their ex, they fantasize marrying another person. They want to correct their Mistake, so they think. Some divorced and remarried and but later wish they remain with their first Spouse, as they find greater trouble in the new Spouse, this is because the first Marriage is not a Mistake, they’ve not discovered the mistake. ?When a Car has flat Tyre we do not abandon the Car,…
Self-knowledge equals freedom from poverty
The first step in creating a cult is to brainwash people. Stand up. Look into the mirror. Point your index finger on your head? Ask yourself aloud: “Mustapha B Mugisa, I am in control of my mind?” replace my name with yours. If you cannot question all the things, they ask you to do, you are likely not to be in control of your mind and destiny. The bad with brainwashing is the inability to differentiate good from the bad. One tends to do anything they are asked even when such a thing is very bad. In institutions that thrive…
The serenity prayer amid #covid19—accept what you cannot change.
One of the popular sayings, attributed to a Chinese General, is “Never start a war you cannot win.” If you are 100 meters runner, do not join a marathon race which you know you cannot win. This means, to succeed in any endeavor you set out to do, research and about some information before you do it. And they practice. Evaluate your odds of success. Focus on joining competitions that you can win. Do not apply for a job in which you have not understood the company, the key officers who have the decision to accept or reject your application…
