The boardroom that drowned in paper “I do not need another deck. I need clarity,” the chairman said, leaning back, visibly irritated, as the screen flickered to slide 87.

Mr. Strategy was in the room that afternoon, watching a familiar ritual unfold. The strategy team had arrived armed with 120 slides, dense charts, and polished language. The CEO nodded politely. One director whispered, “This looks impressive.” Another muttered under his breath, “But what are we actually being asked to decide?”

The presenter continued, “If you look at slide 94, you will see the regional segmentation of our market dynamics.” The chairman cut in, “Young man, are we winning or losing?” That moment was the diagnosis. Not a strategy or data problem but a thinking problem. READ MORE

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When was the last time your board changed the direction of the business in a meaningful way, not approved it, not endorsed it, but actually changed it? I ask that because, in March 2024, I walked into a boardroom convinced I was about to impress everyone with my structured thinking, only to discover after two hours that the board had been debating a beautifully prepared report on the wrong problem entirely, and I sat there quietly thinking, “Even Mr. Strategy has been outplayed by politeness today.”

The lesson was immediate. Most boards are not ineffective because they lack intelligence. But because they mistake activity for governance. Think of a busy boda-boda stage in a trading Centre.

Every rider is moving, engines running, conversations loud, passengers negotiating, money exchanging hands. It looks like progress. It feels like momentum. But the stage itself is not moving anywhere. READ MORE

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This thought-provoking book offers an incisive examination of corporate governance from both a historical and contemporary point of view…I highly recommend it for your useful and sustainable leadership benefit” – Michael Mugabi, Former President, Institute of Corporate Governance of Uganda.