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Who is your lifejacket at the workplace?
Are you a swimmer? Ever since I came face to face with the grim reaper a long time ago in my teens, I have always looked at any pool of...
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What are the top two reasons that cause businesses to collapse?
There is no business that is too big to fail. Like any football team, if goals are not scored, matches cannot be won. Such a football club...
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Who calls you and leaves you challenged?
This is a season of happiness and dreaming while awake. You need to receive calls from people who energize by leaving you happy or...
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Tool 66 of 104 is to plan for the holiday season
“John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the desert of Judea and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” It was of him that...
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What is your ‘captive market’?
It is that time of the year of strategic planning retreats. You can be brilliant by asking your colleagues a simple question: what is our...
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Corruption: the never-ending fight
It is that season of the year of multiple reality tests – poverty, friendship, and family. Once I followed a family after a shopping spree...
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The future of meetings
A meeting is a forum for face to face team member interactions to find a common position on an issue and decide the next steps. The quality...
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How to be rejected and win
How many times have you been rejected? Never take a rejection personally. We all get rejected. Just like there is no road without bumps,...
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Tool 65 of 104 is to stay alert and ready
‘So stay awake, because you do not know the day when your master is coming. You may be quite sure of this, that if the householder had...
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Is there a stone in your shoe
Are you driving a car on a flat-tyre? Much as the car may continue to move, it cannot go as fast as it should. The car cannot run on at...
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Tool 64 of 104 is to lead yourself first
“‘Have you no fear of God at all?’ he said. ‘You got the same sentence as he did, but in our case we deserved it: we are paying for what we...
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Project frontline: the common schemes cybercriminals use
Cybercrime is on the rise. Anyone is a potential victim. Many people are not yet victims of cybercrime because no one is yet interested in...
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Attain high staff productivity through team cohesion and a culture of focus on outcomes
Are your staff working as a Team or Individuals? Are your internal meetings productive or sleepy ones? Study Figures A and B, carefully:...
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You see those two blocks, they are my buildings
After visiting a client yesterday, I bumped into a long-time friend. During our MBA studies, a guest lecturer came to speak about...
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#WinningMindspark Never show weakness
If someone does something to annoy you, and you get annoyed by it, you have actually shown weakness. That is why forgiveness is a powerful...
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When did you last undertake revenue assurance?
After making a short presentation to the senior management team (SMT) of a bank today on the topic, revenue assurance and real-time data...
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From WhatsApp: Food for the thought
I have no idea who wrote this but it makes interesting reading & food for thought; Friends, Let me add the benefit of my time as a student...
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Tool 63 of 104 is to stay ready
Jesus said, ‘All these things you are staring at now – the time will come when not a single stone will be left on another: everything will...
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The bus will leave you
What is your company strategy? What is the culture of the company in which you work? What is your company’s ambition? Ask any staff who...
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Digital marketing myths
Digital marketing is upon us. How are you leveraging it to grow your business? Today, all institutions have some form of digital strategy....
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The state of Uganda's banking sector 2019
How much of the profits do banks reinvest in the economy? Which bank is the most efficient? Why would banks making profits suddenly go...
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What are your daily habits?
Have a daily routine that is productive. No team can win a game without scoring goals. Equally, no team can win a game by conceding more...
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Marketing after a conference
I met a gentleman who had attended our 3rd annual cybersecurity conference in Kampala as one of the sponsors. I asked "how was the...
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Tool 62 of 104 is to remember where you come from
“Now he is God, not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all men are in fact alive,” Luke 20:27-38 There are days we all wish never...
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