There is no doubt in the importance of human capital as the #1 asset. It does not matter your level of automation and process efficiency you have established, if you don’t have engaged employees working as a team, nothing will work out. Whether it is a football club or an organization, it is people not technology who win. Technology needs a team of fantastic people to offer a winning advantage. The marginal advantage Messi or Ronaldo, gains due to top of range footwear, is negligible if they don’t have the talent in the first place. To win with people, they…
To pay or not to pay student Interns?
Employers want staff who are job-ready: people with skills and the discipline to get work moving at the on-set upon recruitment. When you give someone a job, you want them to do it with minimal supervision. To this end, Universities introduced the idea of Internship – where University students are attached to some companies for practical training. The internship is intended to empower graduates with essential hands-on skills. Student Interns work for a minimum period of three months. This is supposed to be a transformational experience for the students where they get to understand what makes a great employee. Ideally,…
Minimum wage bill overdue!
Wednesday 20th February 2019, was a great day for workers. On this day, Parliament of Uganda passed the Minimum Wage Bill (MWB), whose primary objectives were to set a mechanism for the determination of minimum wage that is fair to both the employees and employers in respect to different categories of employment and the specific conditions of the respective workplaces. However, a year later, the President has never assented to the bill by appending his signature to make it become into law. To get a good analysis of the law, visit this link KATS Advocates. Below is a brief extract…
To all the women in your life!
This article is dedicated to all the Women in your life. Happy women’s day. Agood man is like a great lawyer. To win any case, in a fair play proceedings, the lawyer must study the case facts thoroughly. Just like the way a good man must understand each and every woman in his life. Each woman is a case. Who is your case? Each case need the lawyer’s preparation. What facts does the prosecution have? What is their best evidence? That is Debriefing. No lawyer will go to court without debriefing or preliminary hearing. You want to know the way…
Principles help you make better decisions
To lead well, start by defining a set of principles. Let them be part of your life. Rigorously apply them. Others take Christian principles or values. Others, scientific principles or values. Others, Islamic principles or values. And the rest no principles or values. “Thou shall not kill…” If you are a Christian, this value is one of the 10 commandments. It should come up anytime you are faced with a choice to kill or not. Without values, you are likely to kill! For those that believe in scientific principles, say “If you wake up early, work 365 days a year,…
What is strategy?
If you want the best piece of writing about strategy, read the great works of Michael Porter, found on HBR.org or in one of the best books I read about the man himself by Joan Magretta titled “ Understanding Michael Porter – the Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy.” The book features a FAQs, featuring a Q&A with Michael Porter. Below I reproduce an extract. To read more, buy the book from Amazon or Harvard. And if you have a student ID, I am free to share a digital copy with you thanks to my membership with Ebscohost – in…
