April 4, 2024

Does Luck Count in Business?

When Dr. Davis Musinguzi and his four colleagues launched Rocket Health, a telemedicine and digital health service, in November 2012, the initial goal was to operate a 24-hour call center to provide mobile phone consultations for patients. Within the first six months, it is said that around 7,000 people had used the service. But seven…

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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 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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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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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 6, 2023

The Five Warning Signals for a Failing Organization -Part 1

  Business failure is like a cancer. The process moves in stages until there’s no turning back for the Organization and its People. And just like cancer, no entrepreneur or leader wants to hear that their Organization is dying. However, if detected early, there’s a good chance of curing the ‘disease’ and save the entity…

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