Sustaining an NGO requires mindset change, where leaders think business wise. You are not sustainable if you have to first beg in order to serve your beneficiaries. NGO sustainability is the ability to continue its core activities even without local or international donor funding. Many NGOs now look at sustainability in the context of being free from international donor funding. That is half the picture. Do you have sustainable revenue streams to deliver your mandate and satisfy your beneficiaries’ without recourse to donors? Can your NGO pass the sustainability test? Do you have the six building blocks of NGO success?…

Customer focus is critical to enable topline growth. A business is about putting money on the table. How do you grow your revenue daily? How does a company ensure growth of revenues while lowering costs? If you are not selling, chances of going into cash flow challenges are high. Most businesses fail due to lack of sales growth. Even if you cut costs, there reaches a time where you cannot cut costs any further without closing the business. That is why focusing on revenue growth at the beginning is the best strategy. The first line, 1. Turnover is the topline.…

The L in the PLANTS is a key pillar for your career success. The Ugandan society is increasingly becoming litigious. You are your best lawyer. As you succeed or grow, you will knowingly or unknowingly step on some people’s toes.  Many won’t let it lie down. You will most likely receive intentions to sue. Some people may deliberately come into your life with intention to benefit from you. You need strong mastery of the law. The second most important document you must read from cover to cover after the Bible is the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda. This document defines…

  A popular saying goes “a fish starts rotting from the head.”   Why? That is not what is popular. According to Biology, a living thing starts to rot from the point where bacteria enter it. For fish, it is the gut. So fish starts rotting from the gut not the head. It is a well-known fact that when an organization or state fails, it is the leadership and not the lower cadres that are the root cause of the failure. And that is how the saying came about: the “fish starts rotting from the top.” For a business, the…

How do you make your family strong so that you are agreeing on issues of money and build the marriage on a firm foundation? One of the biggest challenge for newly wedded couples these days is that they are collapsing so easily. But why? One of the issues is failure to agree on how to manage family finances. But you could adopt this model; each partner managing their own finances. This might sound Greek. Here, you don’t care how your spouse spends their money. They can spend it the way they want. The basis of marriage is two people come…

When you choose to marry, it means you must find an appropriate model to handle financial issues. Most of the time challenges that come to my desk as an investigator is couples are complaining about their cheating spouses. You must establish a way of managing your family finances depending on the stage of life you got married to each other. Do you combine 100% of your finances? Do you jointly manage 50%? Does each spouse manage their own finances, or the man provides for the family? Which one?   Model 2: Joint account with 50%50% stake Wife and husband agree…