“It is was 2003 when I joined a new primary school in Primary three. I fell in love with the school at first sight, on the day I had visited for pre-entry interviews. A week later, I started classes. Our class was located at the far end, lower block D, middle room. It was welcoming, with the walls covered with posters with great idioms about success written all over. The class Teacher was a fat woman, of medium height, who preferred to be called Madam Hellen. She was a brown lady who always wore a weave. It still looked great…
Food for your soul: VERSE OF THE DAY
Don’t set your heart on being a judge, unless you have the strength of character needed to put an end to injustice. If you let yourself be influenced by someone in a position of power, your integrity will be damaged.” Sirach 7:6
The river has moved! The bridge is no longer useful
The river has moved! The bridge is no longer useful Coronavirus is a mighty wind that has changed the global landscape in terms of how people lead and make choices. It is one of the powerful change agents of the 21st century. Times and challenges have changed, and so have management beliefs and practices. Gone are the days when printing magazines made lots of money. Not anymore. The Internet made exclusive content readily available. Many magazines and print newspaper publications have since changed their business models in response to the new realities. Others have adopted the hybrid business models of…
Stay away from “Part-Time Consultants,” lessons from the frontline
The worst crime is to over promise and under deliver. As consultants, at Summit Consulting Ltd, we try as much as possible to only bid for projects for which we have the internal capacity to deliver. Gone are the days where we would rely on external resources. We learned the hard way. In 2015, we received impressive CVs from two Gentlemen who won our hearts with their experience and expertise in environmental impact assessments (EIA). Being management consultants, we had never considered expanding our service offerings to consultancies like EIAs. Those tasks were not our meat, in the consultant’s speak.…
Stop your bad manners during virtual meetings
Virtual meetings have formalized bad manners, selfishness, and individualism. It is common for the person on the other side of the virtual meeting via Google Meet or Zoom Call to say, “excuse me, I will have my breakfast during the call. Bear with me. But you are free to join…” And then will hastily add, “I won’t take Busheera.” The rest will laugh over it, and the meeting will resume, as the person will take their meal on the other side. Some people are the host of the call, so they put off the video and speak as they munch…
What does digital disruption mean for internal auditing?
The future of auditing is auditing the future. Enough with a review of historical data. The business is heading forward into the future. That is what internal auditing should focus on the value addition chain. Internal audit departments must be transformed through re-skilling, re-tooling, and exposure. Three challenges affecting internal auditing effectiveness in value addition Sampling: why test some and not all? How do we provide independent assurance enterprise-wide amid resource constraints? Cyclical: how do we avoid moving in circles again and again? How do we go beyond the mundane and basics? Past and rear-view: how do we avoid spending…
