Every Thursday & Friday | 9 am–12 noon | @ IFIS, Ntinda Complex, Block B, 4th Floor, Opp. St Luke Church Kampala YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A TECHIE TO WIN WITH DATA. I have seen it again and again. Executives overwhelmed. Business managers are guessing. Teams are working hard, but not working smart. Why? Because they do not understand how to read, clean, and extract insights from data. They fear Excel. They think analytics is for the IT team. That ends now. This is your weekly 3-hour Data Analytics Breakthrough Session designed for professionals like you. Whether you are a…
The blindfolded chef and the spoiled soup – why your growth targets are hard to hit!
I once worked with a consumer manufacturing company trying to enter a new region. They had hired me to help sharpen their go-to-market plan. The Head of Marketing welcomed me with a confident grin and said, “Mr Strategy, we already know what the market wants. Premium quality. People here are tired of being cheap.” I asked him, “How do you know?” He chuckled. “We’ve done this before. This is my bread and butter. It’s common sense.” Common sense? That is where the danger began. So I did what I always do before giving any advice, I asked for facilitation and…
Train them or drain the business
I am a risk taker. Yes. I started my consulting firm in 2007. I left a big-paying job and went to swim in the deep end—on my own. You learn a lot in the private sector. How to land your first job. How to hire your first employee. How to meet compliance. How to pay taxes on invoices even before you are paid. How to chase payments. How to survive. It’s brutal. But you learn in two years what the “safe players” won’t learn in twenty. Five years ago, when I was called into a manufacturing firm that was bleeding…
Uganda’s 2025/26 Budget– bigger wallet. Same old shopping list
Minister Kasaija tabled a Shs 72.1 trillion budget with revenue targets of Shs 37.2 trillion, a record 60% to be self-financed. The rest? Borrowed or begged. Projected GDP is Shs 254.2 trillion (USD 66.1 billion) for FY2025/26, up from Shs 226.3 trillion this year. The cheer? A 7.0% growth estimate. The caution? That optimism is riding on shaky assumptions– oil dreams not yet materialised, global price volatility, regional unrest, and donor fatigue. The structural deficit, 7.6% of GDP, remains huge. We are witnessing a classic case of what Economists refer to as “fiscal drift” — a budget that grows but…
Mr Strategy’s Culture Health Check tool
Mr Strategy’s Culture Health Check Every resignation letter is written long before it is handed in. The real exit begins the moment your best people stop feeling safe, stop feeling heard, or stop believing in the future you promised. Yet most leaders stay blind. Why? Because culture is invisible to those who benefit from it. You measure sales. You measure costs. You track KPIs to the decimal. But when was the last time you measured fear? Or silence? Or resentment wrapped in fake smiles? That is where the Mr Strategy Culture Health Check comes in. This is part of the…
The mask you wear is not strategy, it is survival
When I was a teenager, we would climb trees to harvest wild mangoes and oranges. The ripe ones were often at the top branches, and some trees had thorns especially citrus. One day, I saw a friend wear thick gloves and a helmet. These were very rate items at the time. We laughed. He looked ridiculous. But when the ants came, he was the only one who didn’t jump down screaming. He was prepared for a war that should not have existed. Now imagine needing such armor just to enter your office every morning. That is not culture. That is…
