15th April 2025
If you need an “executive coach,” you probably should not be an executive.

In my early years, back at Munteme Primary School, we had no “life coaches.” You wanted to be a fisherman? You learned by waking up at 5 am, getting into the canoe, and throwing your first net. If you messed up, the lake taught you. Fast, no therapist, no motivational quotes. Just results.

That’s why when I hear executives, especially highly paid ones, say they “need a coach to stay focused, manage stress, or gain clarity”, I pause. You mean to tell me that at the peak of corporate power, controlling a UGX 900+ billion budget, you can’t regulate yourself? Can’t decide what matters? Can’t manage your calendar without a minder? You don’t need a coach. You need a mirror. Read more >>

"A true leader doesn’t need to be introduced. You feel their presence. They ask hard questions. They show up before the deadline."

Your title doesn’t make you a leader, but your behavior does.

Villagers never use titles. You knew the leader when you saw how people followed him to the well, how he calmed a fight during a funeral, or how he got others moving when the roof needed fixing. No one called him “Manager of Community Engagement.” He just acted, and others aligned. People just call you “Chairman.”

That’s why in corporate boardrooms, I’m always amused by title chasers. During a leadership transformation assignment at a financial institution here in Kampala, the Head of Strategy kept introducing himself with his full rank: “Acting Chief Strategy Officer reporting to the Group Executive Director in charge of Transformation and Digitalization.” Meanwhile, his team couldn’t even explain what the strategy was, no alignment, no energy, no leadership. Read more >>

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