Let’s not compare the two. We actually need both of them. We need to have people whom you look up to. In Uganda, we have a lot of challenges. People just want to steal because the people they look up did not get money in the right way. They are maybe very few who have attained success in the right way. However, these are not documented. The people being documented have a lot of black spots when you try tracing how they got the money. Many entrepreneurs find unexplained gaps when they try to look up to some individuals in…

We need to get some things right. Not everyone can be an entrepreneur.  There are some people who are born leaders. They can start something and nurture it.  But most of the time we have seen that even if you are going to be a good entrepreneur, you need some minimum grounding to get insights on how to run a business. Either you have a mentor who is an entrepreneur or go into formal employment and learn from the best professionals. The advantage of entrepreneurship is that you can cut a lot of time in your path to career success.…

To succeed, you need to have intellectual firepower. Put stuff into your head. You need to have the minimum foundation for your success.But mostly importantly, being human is key. You must be able to go into any room, read the moment and be able to make the right actions based on the feelings of the environment. However, this is one of the most unavailable skills to most young professionals especially executives from backgrounds of insufficient.They fall into power. They develop a tendency of gathering huge fat of ego that stands into their way of success. Once you have intellectual firepower…

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…

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…

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…