On 18th September 2017 I received a small book from my senior, Geoffrey Kihuguru. This is the man who had taken time and effort to induct me into the role of Finance Committee Chairman at the Institute of Corporate Governance. He had personally delivered the book to my office, what a humble gesture. Download this article in pdf: Memoirs of Uncle George Kihuguru and student life at Makerere University Seeing a Memoire, I recall, I requested Geoffrey to accept payment for the book to demonstrate the value I attached to it, which I am happy that he accepted. As a…
Ugandan companies continue to struggle in areas of Governance
“This report clearly shows Ugandan companies continue to struggle in areas of Governance but are taking positive steps towards improving their structures.” Download The State Of Corporate Governance Report Today There are so many organizations that have put Boards in place but are doing things, which do not necessarily add value to the business. Knowing the Prince IV corporate governance best practices is one thing. Putting such practices into action is another thing altogether. No one wants organisations with window dressing Boards. Very many things go wrong with incompetent Boards. In politics, you will ask; “Is our parliament a ‘biting’…
The death of conventional or traditional strategic planning, part 1
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,…
