I once visited a factory in Namanve where the manager’s office had no door.

Not because the company was broke, but because, according to him, “I want to be accessible at all times.” Noble idea. Deadly in execution. Every five minutes, someone walked in. A supplier with an invoice. A technician with a broken switch. A clerk asking for airtime.

At the end of my shadowing day, the manager had completed zero high-value work.

He had traded accessibility for irrelevance.

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“You do not need more meetings. You need more movement.”

At a client’s office in Kigali, I noticed something peculiar.

Every employee had a tracker running quietly in the background. It recorded keystrokes, took random screenshots, and logged idle minutes. The IT guy proudly called it “digital accountability.”

But the moment staff saw me, an outsider, they whispered:

“Can you help us disable this thing?”

That is when it hit me: this company had not built a culture of performance.

They had built a culture of paranoia.

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YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A TECHIE TO WIN WITH DATA.

I have seen it again and again. Executives overwhelmed. Business managers are guessing. Teams are working hard, but not working smart.

Why?

Because they do not understand how to read, clean, and extract insights from data. They fear Excel. They think analytics is for the IT team.

That ends now.

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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.