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Recent thinking. Notes from our work in the field.

Practical perspectives on leadership, HR technology, talent, and organization design, drawn from what we are seeing across Uganda’s manufacturing sector and growing organizations in the region.

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Leadership, HR technology, organization design, talent acquisition
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Featured

The piece we would start withIf you read one thing here, read this one.

A manager on a walkway above a production floor
Leadership

What growing manufacturers get wrong about people strategy

Headcount is not capability. A look at what actually breaks when a plant doubles in size, and the order to fix it in.

The library

By subjectWritten from engagements, not from a content calendar.

A supervisor with two operators at a machine Leadership

What new supervisors get wrong in their first 90 days

The three habits that decide whether a promotion off the line holds.

 A manager working from a paper ledger beside an unused monitor HR Technology

Choosing an HRIS your managers will actually use

Why the biggest name is rarely the right one, and what to test before you sign.

 An open plan office floor seen from a walkway above Organization Design

Why growth breaks org charts, and how to rebuild them

Reporting lines drawn for forty people do not survive two hundred.

 Two interviewers at a table with the chair opposite them empty Talent Acquisition

Why your best candidates are dropping out mid-process

Where senior candidates leave a search, and what it costs to find out late.

 A supervisor and an operator talking beside a stilled machine Leadership

The feedback conversation most managers avoid

Underperformance is rarely a surprise. It is usually a conversation nobody had.

 Two colleagues walking the length of a production line Organization Design

Building a career path your people actually believe in

A path people can see is the cheapest retention tool a growing business has.

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