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Entrepreneurship vs formal employment
We need to get some things right. Not everyone can be an entrepreneur. There are some people who are born leaders. They can start something...
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Essential skills for your career success
To succeed, you need to have intellectual firepower. Put stuff into your head. You need to have the minimum foundation for your success.But...
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Sam. F. Owori: A jolly good fellow
Sam Frobisher Owori, a man of great humility and integrity, died on July 13th, aged 76. He achieved more moral capital, most people just...
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Who doesn’t need the ‘big four’ audit firm experience?
There are few professions that are life changing like working in ‘big four’ audit firm. The cross industry experience. Daily late night...
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Are you driving in the rear view mirror?
If you drive a car or use a taxi, you have seen the driver looking through the main driving screen and the side view mirrors. When the...
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What is your target?
If you don’t have a particular target, it becomes very hard to hit any other target. Most of us have taken long to identify our turf...
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Focus on putting money on the table
As the chief executive, employee or anybody on the street, how do you make choices which are going to improve your life? First, in whatever...
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Pay yourself first!
If you are not in the right state, it is difficult to help another. If you are suffering, it is difficult to help another person. If you...
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#Way of the Guerrilla marketing; grow your business on-line
Way of the guerrilla is a marketing and sales approach which relies on making significant sales for entrepreneurs and leaders who don’t...
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Enterprise security solutions
As a top executive, how do you stay in charge of the bank’s most critical assets – your core banking infrastructure? How sure are you that...
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#WayofTheGuerrilla: why you need a marketing plan
Most of the time I have been with clients, apparently successful but when you actually go deep, understand their financials, you realize...
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#WayoftheGuerrilla for super sales – marketing your services
Are you an entrepreneur, professor, accountant or medical doctor? Regardless of your profession or career, where do you spend most of your...
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#WayOfThGuerrilla: what is your sales focus?
The kind of decisions you take can make or fail your business. As an entrepreneur, what is your focus? As a follower of the...
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#WayofTheGuerrilla selling on shoestring budget
As an entrepreneur or CEO, when it comes to running your business, where do you put a lot of priority? Do you focus on putting money on the...
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Why Indians succeed easily in Africa, part 3
Know the difference between an asset and a liability. Even for some of us accountants, the clarity between assets and a liability is not so...
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The Ghetto’s Wine: From the ghetto to Parliament
Don’t take the children growing in the ghettos lightly. They are potential future presidents. They are the real rags to riches stories. Few...
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Why Indians succeed easily in Africa, part 2
Involve family in their business Once I was at one of the top Indian owned company here in Uganda. I had been invited to make a...
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Why Indians succeed easily in Africa, part 1
I come from Munteme village in Hoima. Some of the iconic buildings in our village, we were told, were built by the Indians. When I was a...
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Why would it be hard to be fired?
Knowing your value on the job is critical personal career success secret. What special skills do you bring on the table? It is integrity?...
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Who are you?
Your biggest obstacle to growth is poor mindset. This morning, a top executive came to my office and said “Mustapha I looked at your...
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Your business is like a baby
Running a business is like a baby. It has got stages. At first the baby cannot crawl. They need a lot of care. Then, the baby starts by...
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What is your most valuable possession?
You are 30 years old. You are still at University. You have a great job and two children. You live is a great apartment. You have heard...
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Why do good strategies fail to execute?
If a strategy is good, it should be easy to execute. To execute a strategy, you need great leadership – you must align your strategy to the...
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Of Tacca’s atheism and blasphemy
I found the article, Sorry, Prof Kanyeihamba, I am not for demolition, in The Sunday Monitor, June 11 2017 comical. Science was discovered...
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