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November 24, 2023
Business: The Failures No One Warned Me About
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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November 20, 2023
Neurodiversity in the workplace: Working with Colleagues Having Sensory Disabilities
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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October 26, 2023
Technology is a Business Accelerator, Not an Initiator of Success
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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October 16, 2023
Today’s Job Market: Networks and ‘Who You Know’ Really Matter!
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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October 10, 2023
Aya Hotel Failure is a Case of Excessive Ambition.
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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September 18, 2023
Entrepreneurship And Self-Employment Are Not For Everyone!
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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September 6, 2023
Social Media And Public Relations Management
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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August 28, 2023
The Five Warning Signals for a Failing Organization – Part V (Loss of Relevance Caused by Inability to Change or Adapt)
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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August 14, 2023
The Five Warning Signals for a Failing Organization – Part IV (Panic, Confusion and Desperate Actions)
When Organizations become excessively arrogant as a result of Success (Warning Signal #1), they pursue undisciplined Growth (Warning Signal #2), and they begin denying Risk (Warning Signal #3). The combination of these factors often results into Panic, Confusion and Desperate Actions (Warning Signal #4). The descent into panic and confusion normally takes a turn to…
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August 7, 2023
The Five Warning Signals for a Failing Organization – Part III (Denial of Risk and Failure to Confront Brutal Facts)
PHOTO: OLI SCARFF / GETTY IMAGES Hello, and welcome back to our Five-Part Article Series on the warning signals of a Failing Organization. In this edition (Part III), we take a look at Warning Signal #3 – Denial of Risk and Failure to Confront Brutal Facts. Here, Organizations and leaders become blind to the impending…
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