Innocent Ssaabwe

  Recently, I witnessed an eye-opening situation at a station where some of the support staff conspired to push out a colleague. Their plan was to create room for their friends to join the team. Unfortunately, the colleague was indeed forced out, and two of their friends were hired to take over the role. But here’s the twist—those two replacements simply couldn’t perform at the level of the person who had been unfairly removed. Their lack of competence was so evident that management eventually decided to let them go and invite back the very staff they had fired. This story left me with a few powerful lessons: 1.      Be Known for Your Value. In any workplace, your strongest security isn’t the office politics or alliances you build—it’s the value you consistently deliver. When you’re excellent at what you do, people will go out of their way to look for you. Skills and performance have a way of silencing the noise around you. 2.      ...

  Once the euphoria of campus fades and the excitement of your first job settles, reality introduces itself in the form of your first tax return—and it stings a bit. You dream big. You think of buying a car, moving to a bigger house, landing a better job. Bigger car, bigger paycheck, bigger ambitions. Sometimes, in chasing those dreams, you miss the simpler joys: wearing your first suit, buying your mother a handbag, or even taking a diploma course in flowers—just because it makes you happy. Then you blink, and suddenly you’re 40 or 50. You don’t feel that old, but society insists you are. When you say “25 years ago,” your mind is still in the year 2000. You catch yourself wondering: Have I done enough? Have I achieved enough? What could have been different? The once volatile, adrenaline-filled lifestyle has mellowed into pragmatic pursuits—fitness, health, private BBQs, watching plays. Every now and then, you still attempt the wild weekend binge, only to need three days to re...