SamuelJjuuko

Paul and Timothy From the Bible in the book of 2 Timothy 2:1; we come across Paul calling Timothy “my dear son”. You may think Timothy was a biological son of Paul. Please no! Timothy was from the Lycaonian city of Lystra or of Derbe in Asia Minor, born of a Jewish mother who had become …

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Copy and Paste In the initial years of my academic journey at Makerere University http://www.mak.ac.ug, I completely utilized the notes and slides of my mentor Prof. Denis Kalumba at the University of Cape Town http://www.uct.ac.za. This was done under his permission and supervision. I had no idea where to start from in relation to coming …

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  Once Upon a Time For a long time (probably eight years from 2010 to 2018), I was teaching in more than one university in Uganda. At one point, I was teaching in four universities. I found myself running from one class at a certain university to the next class in another university. One of …

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Frozen Many times I have encountered a web page freezing from nowhere. A frozen state is when the web page appears to have stopped. Nothing on the screen seems to move hence no response. This is a very frustrating situation especially if it happens in the middle of an important action. The situation tends to …

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  A story is told of a lady who resigned from her job as a manager of a department in a certain leading corporate organization. The department was performing great under her leadership. She would be at work by 5 am in the morning and leave late in the evening. She had inherited an underperforming …

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  Currently I am reading a book The Great Game of Business by Jack Stack. Something from the book has been disturbing my mind. Jack recommends sharing equity with employees. The book asserts that “using equity interests as your way of providing a stake in the outcome is likely to be the superior option”. The …

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p071kgyt   Mad Woman A few weeks back, I was driving from Kajjansi through Entebbe Expressway to my workstation in Nansana. As I was exiting the Expressway to join the Northern Bypass, I saw a mad woman rushing to the middle of the road and picking up a dead dog. All the cars stopped for …

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  Introduction Recently I have been listening to Podcasts on Business Wars, hosted by David Brown and produced by Wondery, on Audible. The Podcasts are mainly about two companies in the same industry and fighting for the same customers were able to manoeuvre each other and succeed. They tell stories of how the wars drove …

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As Makerere University is leveraging its 100 years of existence this year to build a transformed society (https://100.mak.ac.ug/), let me also share how I have leveraged from it.   Start of Teaching Career I graduated from Makerere University in January 2011 though I finished the studies in May 2010. In August 2010, I started offering …

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