June 5, 2025#WinningMindspark

What every board member should know?

In one of my first board advisory sessions for a mid-sized bank, a veteran director

June 4, 2025#WinningMindspark

The meeting without chairs, a project without a responsible person

It started with a strange email. The CEO of a mid-sized agri-processing firm I had

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May 23, 2025#WinningMindspark

Be the elephant in the boardroom, true leadership doesn’t shout.

True leaders and winners never ask for attention, they get it naturally. In the heart

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May 23, 2025#WinningMindspark

The hidden power broker in corporate governance

When you access boardrooms, you see what you should not have. You learn a lot;

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The meeting without chairs, a project without a responsible person

It started with a strange email. The CEO of a mid-sized agri-processing firm I had supported years earlier wrote: “Mr Strategy, we’ve grown fast.

Be the elephant in the boardroom, true leadership doesn’t shout.

True leaders and winners never ask for attention, they get it naturally. In the heart of Murchison Falls National Park, a lone elephant once

Who evaluates the chair? The Board’s unspoken blind spot

In most boardrooms, one critical question lingers unasked, unanswered, and often unwelcome: “Who evaluates the Chair?”  Boards regularly assess the CEO. Some even evaluate themselves

Forget the 5Cs because they were built for a banking museum, not today’s battlefield.

In March 2024, I received a call from a Nigerian bank, one of those institutions parading itself as digital-first while secretly running on analog

DTB Uganda, the bank with a trillion shillings+ asset base and no real ambition.

If DTB Uganda were a person, it would be that well-dressed executive in a Land Cruiser, parked all day at a cafe, scrolling Quora