You have been at home with the young ones. If you are an active parent, you know how challenging it can be to help the children cope up with their studying. To win, you must designate a space as a home office and study room. This is what I have done. I designated a room. I called it the study room/home office. In case you have many rooms in your house, designate the living room as the study room from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. No television. No noise. Anyone who comes to the living room is coming to work…
The death of conventional or traditional strategic planning, part 3
The term strategy is one of the most used by leaders today, yet few understand it well. Many strategic plan documents lack a “strategy.” This makes winning difficult. No company wins by luck. If such companies exist, their winning is not sustainable. A good strategy and effective execution make winning a deliberate action and the focus is on maintaining a competitive advantage. Your competitive strengths must come from strategic intent, which must be articulated in your strategic plan in the form of a business model. To formulate a good strategy, leaders must deploy good strategic thinking processes to come up…
#COVID-19: What are the conditions for re-opening Uganda?
On March 30th, 2020, President Y. K. Museveni announced a 14-day’s lockdown of the country, thereby closing businesses and restricting movements of people as a social distancing strategy. On 14th April 2020, the President extended the lockdown period by another 21 days to May 6th, 2020. We are all waiting for the next Presidential directive. Will He extend the lockdown or lift it? Life has been disrupted, and many businesses may never recover from this. We all want to know what is next? During the lockdown, all small and medium-sized businesses deemed non-critical have been closed. Few businesses have been…
The death of conventional or traditional strategic planning, part 2
What is strategy? The strategy is the process of making choices about how to win with stakeholders and customers against the competition. Read: The death of conventional or traditional strategic planning, part 1 Every person and company need a strategy – they specific way to win. At an individual level, you can strategize to win by becoming a content expert or a professional – medical doctor, engineer, lawyer or accountant, or process expert – a consultant, a mentor, or speaker. Nowadays, politicking is a profession, you could decide to become one and win. Even better, you may shortcut the process…
Judge a person by his questions, not answers…
It is Voltaire who said, “Judge a man by his questions, not his answers.” He was right. So, why do many politicians lack a forum for asking questions? I only see an answer time, where after an address, a politician receives questions from the Fourth Estate members i.e. journalists who are often allowed to ask questions. If you do not ask the right questions, you cannot get the right answers. No leader can lead well without asking the right questions. When a person goes to hospital, the first thing a doctor does is to ask questions, like “when did you…
Bravo to Americans Leaders for the US $2 Trillion Relief Bill, it is timely
For the first time in the United States history, the US Senate has unanimously passed a US $2 Trillion relief bill, code-named CARES Act – Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. Under the bill, is on the right track to becoming law before the end of this month, Every Individual American received the US $1,200. Each American child to get the US $500 All small businesses to share a total of the US $300 billion All companies assessed as distressed to share the US $500 billion Health care sector to receive US $100 billion, part of which, I think…
