For any country, the primary stakeholders are her citizens. Next are her strategic allies. What is our country doing to make life so light for all Ugandans and our allies? After every five years, Ugandans go to the polling stations to elect leaders with the best ideas and choices of leading the country to prosperity. What happens when the choices promised are not delivered? How do the citizenries hold leaders accountable? Great thinkers advise that when a country does not choose what it will do well and what it will not do, it ends up being a mediocre country. “You…
Problem solving
Most of the time, organizations are faced with challenges and need innovative ideas to fix them. And if you are innovative, you must be able to diagnose the problem very well. According to the Harvard Business Review article, if you own storied building and one of the biggest challenges raised by the tenants is a slow lift. So, you will think of many solutions of how to fix the lift. Your solution space is install a new lift or configure the algorithms to make it faster or both. However, that way, you could be thinking within a narrow frame of…
Effective leadership
If you get people, blind fold them and ask them to begin throwing stones, can they hit the same target? This is why many leaders have the vision, objectives, know where the business is heading. Unfortunately don’t have the art of how to create commitment and team alignment to ensure the different departments; CEO, HR, Finance and operations have same clarity of the journey. If you give these people roles but don’t show them how they fit their core activities into the bigger picture of the business, they will be throwing arrows in different directions. They will never hit the…
Women tipped on business
Women in business have been tipped on the crucial business skills to enable them realize maximum output from their enterprises. The tips were given at a meeting held on Friday at Protea Hotel in Kampala. Among the skills needed for success of a business, experts said are: self-evaluation to ascertain whether they are on the right track; learn and follow legal requirements; employ appropriate human resources; exploitation of digital platforms; value addition and marketing. This was during the MTN masters class of business women in Kampala, which attracted a big number of female entrepreneurs. Mustapha Mugisa, a governance expert at…
Women: The heroes of the world
Mugisa. Mugisa. Mugisa. Where are you? You did it. Went a loud voice calling out my name. It was a Tuesday afternoon in 1996. I had just gone to fetch water from a nearby open well. In the era of no mobile phones, communication was tough. I saw my elder brother running towards me excited. “Fr. Cosmas Adyebo is at home looking for you. Hurry”, intoned my brother. I knew Fr Cosmas. He was our Head teacher at Munteme Fatima College. I was expecting my Senior Four (Ordinary Level) results. I left the water full Jerrycan with him and ran…
Managing yourself
Many of us do not know how to bring ourselves to order. This is one of the biggest challenges of so many people. But even those ones who are struggling don’t know how to manage their time. The ultimate reason why you need to manage yourself is to be able to take yourself from level A to B. Many people are always living below their true potential. If your potential is 100%, you find people have only achieved 40%. They don’t get to break-through the ceiling. The best way to break through the roof is having a clear feedback mechanism.…
