I once worked with a consumer manufacturing company trying to enter a new region. They had hired me to help sharpen their go-to-market plan. The Head of Marketing welcomed me with a confident grin and said, “Mr Strategy, we already know what the market wants. Premium quality. People here are tired of being cheap.” I asked him, “How do you know?” He chuckled. “We’ve done this before. This is my bread and butter. It’s common sense.” Common sense? That is where the danger began. So I did what I always do before giving any advice, I asked for facilitation and…

I am a risk taker. Yes. I started my consulting firm in 2007. I left a big-paying job and went to swim in the deep end—on my own. You learn a lot in the private sector. How to land your first job. How to hire your first employee. How to meet compliance. How to pay taxes on invoices even before you are paid. How to chase payments. How to survive. It’s brutal. But you learn in two years what the “safe players” won’t learn in twenty. Five years ago, when I was called into a manufacturing firm that was bleeding…

Mr Strategy’s Culture Health Check Every resignation letter is written long before it is handed in. The real exit begins the moment your best people stop feeling safe, stop feeling heard, or stop believing in the future you promised. Yet most leaders stay blind. Why? Because culture is invisible to those who benefit from it. You measure sales. You measure costs. You track KPIs to the decimal. But when was the last time you measured fear? Or silence? Or resentment wrapped in fake smiles? That is where the Mr Strategy Culture Health Check comes in. This is part of the…

When I was a teenager, we would climb trees to harvest wild mangoes and oranges. The ripe ones were often at the top branches, and some trees had thorns especially citrus. One day, I saw a friend wear thick gloves and a helmet. These were very rate items at the time. We laughed. He looked ridiculous. But when the ants came, he was the only one who didn’t jump down screaming. He was prepared for a war that should not have existed. Now imagine needing such armor just to enter your office every morning. That is not culture. That is…

Fellow Accountants, Let us not pretend this is just another routine vote. This is not about who has the best headshot. Or who has held the microphone longest. This is about impact. About choosing seven architects of the future, not custodians of the past. The Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda (ICPAU) is not a retirement home for career professionals or a stepping stone for political aspirants. It is the engine room for economic discipline, public trust, and national integrity. Yet here we are, choosing seven council members from a lineup where some faces have turned the Council into…