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Amid the jubilation of graduation day, a lady I will call Pauline and her friends graduated from Engineering school. They all dreamt big and hoped to land cool jobs, eager to earn that engineering stamp of approval – ‘Engineer’ in the future. However, things turned out differently for Pauline. While her friends quickly secured…
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A Question that Lingers. As I sat in the interview room, the atmosphere was charged with anticipation. The panelists were scrutinizing my resume, and I could sense their curiosity. I had always been candid about my career journey, a journey that led me from one organization to another, each stop offering unique opportunities for…
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On one warm evening in March 2012, at a downtown Hotel in Kampala, I met with four dear friends. We wanted to hear more about what was happening in each other’s lives. And after a good deal of kidding, and a good meal, we settled into an interesting conversation – Entrepreneurship. At the time, all…
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I found myself working closely with a boss whose behaviors seemed to defy explanation. Meetings were a maze of confusion, communication breakdowns were a common thread, and frustration was the order of the day. The professional landscape was colored by these challenges until a heated disagreement brought everything to a pause. It was after that…
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Once upon a time in the city of Kampala, Uganda, there were two competing companies – TechPulse ltd and HeritageCraft ltd – both vying for supremacy in their industry. As they embarked on their journey toward success, their approaches to technology would set them on very different paths. TechPulse was the embodiment of everything tech-savvy.…
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We are pretty sure that many of our readers have heard of this popular adage: “It’s who you know, not what you know”. In today’s job market, the honest truth is that: You don’t need to have the greatest skills, talents, or brains to get hired. It’s mostly a matter of being in the right…
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Why do businesses fail? Well, after spending quite a number of years exploring this question, I have so far failed to find an outright answer. The reasons for business failure are numerous: from actions to inactions of top management; from poor organizational processes to flawed business models; and from lack of resources to sheer bad…
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Meet Sarah Atim (not real name), a 38-year-old Kampala-based accountant. Sarah had long been regarded as a star performer in her field and for years, she had been a dedicated and skilled accountant at a prominent accountancy firm, helping businesses navigate complex financial terrain. Her colleagues admired her precision, clients trusted her with financial secrets,…
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Every Organization Is One Tweet Away From A Disaster There are many laws of nature and one of them is that your greatest source of advantage is your greatest source of danger. This is true of social media; the greatest benefit of social media is its speed and ability to reach far and beyond within…
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Throughout corporate history, on both local and global scenes, the world has witnessed countless Organizations – Small, Medium and Large – that have inevitably fallen from grace to grass, and with each failure telling a story of multi-faced challenges. Over the past few weeks, we have taken our readers through a series of articles, casting…
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The most important characteristics of blue ocean strategy is a new way of solving users’ pains, which means creating the solution no one expected to exist, but that everyone needed. This is called value innovation.“The best way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition” - Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
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