There are few professions that are life changing like working in ‘big four’ audit firm. The cross industry experience. Daily late night working hours. The urgent proposal adrenaline. Over demanding clients. Very competitive team of peers. Endless assignments. Very ‘lazy’ clients. The end of month time sheets and work plans. The overzealous supervisors. And many more make it a worthy experience. You have to stay on top of your game to keep the job. The big four audit firms in our country (Uganda) recruit on merit based on two key criterions– (i) the folks who will do the jobs. And…
Are you driving in the rear view mirror?
If you drive a car or use a taxi, you have seen the driver looking through the main driving screen and the side view mirrors. When the driver looks in the rear view mirror, he is taking note of what is coming from behind. When the driver looks through the main driving mirror, he is looking ahead of the road – to where she or he is heading. To avoid accidents, the driver needs both mirrors? However, which of the two should the driver spend a lot of time looking through — the front driving mirror or the rear view…
What is your target?
If you don’t have a particular target, it becomes very hard to hit any other target. Most of us have taken long to identify our turf because we don’t have clarity of our targets. As a professional, the most important thing to ask yourself is which kind of career choices do you have to take; are you going to go through formal employment or entrepreneurship, are you going to succeed as an engineer, doctor or as an accountant? Life is not a marathon. You may fail to maintain the pace. There are lows and highs. It is very important to…
Focus on putting money on the table
As the chief executive, employee or anybody on the street, how do you make choices which are going to improve your life? First, in whatever you do focus on putting money on the table. If it’s not on the table, it becomes very difficult for you to succeed. In the journey of business, I have witnessed a lot of challenges when a person does have money in their pocket, bank account or they don’t see any stability to sustain their current life style, they lose self-esteem, confidence and become disorganized. Remember, the first minutes of your work when you wake…
Pay yourself first!
If you are not in the right state, it is difficult to help another. If you are suffering, it is difficult to help another person. If you are thirsty, you need the first drop before you share the water. That is the life’s principle. Look after yourself first. That is not selfishness. It is the right thing to do. To help others, you must have helped yourself first. If you are a frequent traveler, you have noticed that at the beginning of every flight, it is a standard procedure that the air hostess will take you through safety…
#Way of the Guerrilla marketing; grow your business on-line
Way of the guerrilla is a marketing and sales approach which relies on making significant sales for entrepreneurs and leaders who don’t have a lot of money to spend,and are very careful in terms of where to spend the little on them. The guerrillas focus on critical areas. On-line Guerrillas do not just need a web site template, they need one that is interactive. They create a website that is right for their business. A bad website kills the business. While browsing posts on LinkedIn, I landed on a posted by one of the sales person at one of the…

















