Learn to make sense without making sense. This kind of skill will amaze not only your direct reports but also your great sponsors
THAT LANGUAGE: You see people, the corruption in Uganda has a language. A language that’s hard to detect. If you know, you know. To survive in corporate, you must also become good at inventing words, at borrowing terms, from everywhere, from anywhere.
Dear Good people, I am taking some time to check in. My mind was on something else, I had planned to attack the almond milk and olive oil people. But then, someone escalated something more important. It’s the kind of thing we couldn’t park. Mbu wama, how do you succeed in corporate? What’s the secret. And I said, it’s like 10 percent skill, and 90 percent playing the part. And the way to play the part good people is to speak the language, zze corporate language.
I do trust you have the bandwidth to keep up with this end-to-end integration of our must-dos in this piece. And feel free to interrupt if I am moving fast. You can drop your questions in the chat box, unmute yourselves, or should we give it some five minutes so others can join in. Now, if you are really lost by this time, it’s a sign corporate is not for you. For I do not plan to circle back and untie the nuts and bolts for you, so you get it. If you don’t get it, then come to Kikuubo we do better things.
If you spend time in corporate, you must know how to get the low-hanging fruits. For example, be able to tell the difference between margin-accretive things and margin-dilutive things…
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