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The board’s role in strategy execution, part 1
When I walk into most organizations, I see the same thing: applause for a new strategy, nods around the table, a thick printed plan, and...
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How to turn raw data into a powerful business-winning opportunity for an Organization
Start with the business pain, not the data Do not ask, “What can this data tell us?” Ask instead: “What decisions are we making blindly?”...
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Why every executive should understand basic analytics
Why every executive should understand basic analytics Understanding basic analytics is no longer optional; it is a leadership imperative....
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The compass in a storm
The compass in a storm My company was once hired by a regional bank facing massive disruption. New fintech startups were eating their...
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Mastering data analytics in 3 hours, from basics to advanced
Every Thursday & Friday | 9 am–12 noon | @ IFIS, Ntinda Complex, Block B, 4th Floor, Opp. St Luke Church Kampala YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A...
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The blindfolded chef and the spoiled soup – why your growth targets are hard to hit!
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...
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Train them or drain the business
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...
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Uganda’s 2025/26 Budget- bigger wallet. Same old shopping list
Minister Kasaija tabled a Shs 72.1 trillion budget with revenue targets of Shs 37.2 trillion, a record 60% to be self-financed. The rest?...
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Mr Strategy’s Culture Health Check tool
Mr Strategy’s Culture Health Check Every resignation letter is written long before it is handed in. The real exit begins the moment your...
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The mask you wear is not strategy, it is survival
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...
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Who should you vote for? My take on the ICPAU Council elections
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...
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What every board member should know?
In one of my first board advisory sessions for a mid-sized bank, a veteran director leaned back, chuckled, and said, “We already approved...
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The meeting without chairs, a project without a responsible person
It started with a strange email. The CEO of a mid-sized agri-processing firm I had supported years earlier wrote: “Mr Strategy, we’ve grown...
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Be the elephant in the boardroom, true leadership doesn’t shout.
True leaders and winners never ask for attention, they get it naturally. In the heart of Murchison Falls National Park, a lone elephant...
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The hidden power broker in corporate governance
When you access boardrooms, you see what you should not have. You learn a lot; all you need is to learn how to keep secrets. I once watched...
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Who evaluates the chair? The Board’s unspoken blind spot
In most boardrooms, one critical question lingers unasked, unanswered, and often unwelcome: “Who evaluates the Chair?” Boards regularly...
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Do not sit in the cockpit if you cannot read a map
A CEO once called me. He said, “Mr. Strategy, we want you to train our board on finance for non-finance directors.” I declined. I told him...
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When strategy meets culture, who wins?
The boardroom was tense. A new CEO had just been hired to lead a regional manufacturing firm that had stagnated for five years. He walked...
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Winning in the boardroom
In 2008, I sat at the back of the Institute boardroom, clutching my notebook like a talisman. I was not a board member yet. I was just...
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Forget the 5Cs because they were built for a banking museum, not today’s battlefield.
In March 2024, I received a call from a Nigerian bank, one of those institutions parading itself as digital-first while secretly running on...
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DTB Uganda, the bank with a trillion shillings+ asset base and no real ambition.
If DTB Uganda were a person, it would be that well-dressed executive in a Land Cruiser, parked all day at a cafe, scrolling Quora for...
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How good people cross the line.
Fraud doesn’t begin with bad people. It begins with pressure. With a quiet “just this once.” With a system that looks away. To truly...
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Why actionTEAM risk management software is the best tool
In 2018, I got the opportunity to partner with a mid-sized Kenyan insurance firm that had just survived a UGX 3.1 billion fraud. After the...
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Transform your EXCO into board-level strategists
Dear CEOs, Boards don’t fail from lack of updates; they fail from lack of insight. When EXCOs merely report activity, the board fills the...
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