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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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https://medium.com/@joshshannonhouse/are-you-lifting-up-others-528a5e6b007   “Success doesn’t occur in a vacuum. In reality, there are a number of factors that lead to the success of an entrepreneur.” Marwa Abdelaziz (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/associate-successful-people-here-only-i-tell-u-whybut-abdelaziz-/)   According to Marwa Abdelaziz, one of the factors that quicken your steps to success in everything is to associate with people who have succeeded in the same …

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Proverbs 13:20 (NKJV) He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will be destroyed.   The Power of Association I am a great believer in the power of association. And I think many people underrate the influence of association. My mentor in many aspects of life, Prof. Denis Kalumba, recently became the recipient of the South African Geotechnical Gold Medal …

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Source: https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2015-03-09-quick-facts-about-uct   I am lucky to have received a DAAD scholarship (https://www.daad.de/de/) to pursue MSc. Eng. studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 2014 specializing in Geotechnical Engineering. This was my first time to leave Uganda and also to “visit the skies”. So you can imagine what this meant to me at …

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  “When you look at the fear in the face, you gain strength, courage and confidence. You must do the thing you and critics think you cannot do.” Eng. Joel Aita   Primary Level   I attended a local primary school near our home, in Nateete, for ten years from Baby Class to Primary Seven. …

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Every time am driving on the road, am keen to look at the environment around me. This includes the vehicles. In Uganda, Toyota https://www.toyota.co.ug/ takes the biggest share.   Have you realized that for every Toyota vehicle, even for the same model, as long as the year of make is different there will be something …

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