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In one mid-sized bank, the executive committee celebrated record loan growth. They cheered the numbers, cut a cake, and issued a press release. What no one said in the room was that over 40 percent of the new portfolio was…

At the Institute of Corporate Governance of Uganda (ICGU) General Training Session, I addressed professors, doctors, and entrepreneurs on one of the most misunderstood subjects in leadership today: strategic planning, key practices, and implementation. Too many leaders still mistake strategy…

Strategy execution support assignments are my favourite because they give you a front-row seat to the client’s real world for 12 months or more. You are not just reading reports, you’re in the meetings, watching habits, seeing behaviours, and spotting…

The fastest way to waste a morning is to have everyone paddling hard without agreeing on the destination. One person steers toward the shallow fishing grounds, another aims for the deeper waters, while a third follows the flock of birds…

During a strategy review for a regional company, I asked a simple question at the factory floor: “What’s our strategy?” The answers were a comedy of contradictions. One supervisor spoke about “leveraging synergies to optimise cross-functional efficiencies.” Another mumbled something…