Francis Egbuson

African Time During our wedding over 15 years ago, my late father-in-law walked in through the side door into waiting room where the wedding party was awaiting to be ushered into the main reception hall. Without much hesitation and as if to respond to the anxiety inside me that we were over one hour late – “Africans have time, white people have watches”. While this did not offer much consolation, I reflected a bit on the thought that we did not have to be anxious because “we have time”. I almost forgot about this thought from my father-in-law, until a couple of days ago during a dinner with two American friends. One them – Benjamin made the point that his experiences in Uganda in the last 5 years or so has thought that Ugandans and consequently Africans invest “more time into relationships” than make commitments to be “on time”. So Benjamin will have us believe that rather than keep our commitments to an appointment, we kept our commitments to relationships. Well, my im...

We just arrived from Kigali, Rwanda where we hosted Franklin Covey global productivity practice leader Kory Kogon. Morning event with the Rwanda Private Sector Federation was awesome. We had about 90 plus guests for the morning event. Attendees were drawn from key private sector organizations and they came early to listen to Kory Kogon. Kory delivered the core thesis of the 5 Choices - that with today's paradox of instant access to data and poor decision making, the 5 choices provide the mindset, skill set and tool set to provide focused attention, improved decision making and greater physical and mental energy at the end of the day. The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity are: Choice 1 : Act on the important, don't react to the urgent In today’s world, people are drowning in email, overwhelmed with demands, and trying to do more with less. 5 Choices participants explore how to filter vitally important priorities from distractions so they can make a real contribut...

Kory speaking on the 5 Choices - Feb 15 2013 in Uganda  Having just concluded a 5 Choices To Extraordinary Productivity workshop with Kampala Serena Hotel, it is great to be heading to Kigali on Wednesday to see Kory Kogon. Kory Kogon is the global productivity practice leader for FranklinCovey and she will be speaking at a breakfast event at Mille Colline Hotel on Thursday July 11th at 8:00 am. Kory is really the author and chief evangelist of 5 Choices. This invite only event is been organized by our firm CEMM - www.cemmgroup.com - and the Private Sector Federation of Rwanda - www. psf .org.rw- . Now for the uninitiated, 5 Choices is designed to ensure that we focus on our highest priorities that enable us leave a contribution in our selected roles in life. With 5 Choices you can act on and schedule the big "rocks" (major priorities) with clear attention, focused decision while increasing your energy levels. In a world of big data, alerts, pings and multiple decis...