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What is a culture audit?
Covid has left a lot of devastation behind. A friend recently told me how they are worried about where to get money for school fees, as...
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The Uber driver
On 3rd March 2021, I took an Uber Taxi after a long time. I went to a meeting and sent my Assistant who also doubles as my driver on an...
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Uganda Cranes: how a bad kit sponsor kills a team
#mindspark: Uganda Cranes has been doing badly over recent years. The brand visibility of the National team has fallen so much you may...
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From WhatsApp: Our journey together is so short!
—- "Our journey together is so short!" A young lady sat in a bus. At the next stop a loud and grumpy old lady came and sat next to her. She...
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Tax owners of tinted cars instead of taxing cash withdrawals
The proposal to tax customers who withdraw cash over the counter by the Ministry of Finance may be counterproductive. One would be forgiven...
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The best of WhatsApp: The Coffin Maker
An SDA Church in Nyeri (Kenya) was leaking and the walls were almost collapsing. After the service, the Pastor asked the worshipers if they...
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Mustapha on Character
Photograph develops in darkness. So is character. It also develops in darkness. Your challenges. Fears. Worries. Disappointments and...
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Who is your accountability partner?
Are you too good to be great? When you adopt a winning mind focus (WMF) you spark your mind and improve your odds of success. No car...
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#mindspark: Children in the 4IR
Daughter: “Dad, when I grow old I will buy for you a dishwasher. You make me wash dishes but it is child torture. Others eat, and I wash....
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Second Sunday Of Lent Year B Theme: Surrender
Once armed attackers surprised a family on their way home where a bullet hit a young boy as he slept in the back seat. A short time later...
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The concept of personal risk-taking
“You cannot fail to sleep because some people die in their sleep.” That is one of the opening lines I use when engaging with executives and...
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The best of WhatsApp: A tribute to Archbishop Janani Luwum by Prof. Ezra Suruma.
In the year that Archibishop Janani Luwum died, I was living in self-imposed exile in Florida, USA, working as an Associate Professor of...
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The race to rule the world
Who's running the World? Biden, Putin, and Xi were arguing on who’s in charge of the world? US, Russia, or China? Without any conclusion,...
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The tough village life
10th January 2021. The village used to be a place where you went to relax, be carefree with your personal property like cash. Not any more....
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summitRISK Enterprise Risk Management Practical Class based on ISO 31000:2018
What is the relationship between risk management and innovation? Is your risk management agenda adding value to your enterprise or it is a...
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1st Sunday Of Lent Year B Theme: Temptations
Lent is a season of introspection, a time of taking personal inventory and self-examination. These six weeks, set aside each year by the...
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The power of reading: stimulate the mind and your imagination.
Every morning, the CEO of a major bank in Kampala went to the corner behind Communications House where a shoeshine man was always there. He...
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Right context beats any content.
Ask any competent consultant their first step in any project implementation, the answer is to understand the context. The more you know...
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Homily Ash Wednesday Theme: Be reconciled with God
Brothers and sisters, on this Ash Wednesday we enter a season of penance and mortification for forty days that precede Easter being called...
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Are you crossing a busy road blindfolded?
If you have not yet done a cybersecurity maturity assessment of your organization, you are like a pedestrian crossing a busy road...
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6th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year B Theme: Everlasting love
Through the centuries, humanity has suffered a myriad illness some of which have altered the course of history. Nearer to our times,...
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5th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year B: Work & Pray
Work is whatever we expend energy on for the sake of accomplishing and achieving something. Ideally, work is not what we do for a living...
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The best of WhatsApp: Raise your son well
#copied RAISING A SON TODAY It's already past 08:00 am. By 8.am your son should be awake participating in the daily chores. He should be...
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Risk appetite articulation: do not bite what you cannot swallow
Risk appetite articulation: do not bite what you cannot swallow You have probably heard about the common advice “do not bite what you...
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