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I have worked in International development, with respected International development agencies, for the last 15 years.

I continue to be fascinated by what brings and takes away EFFECTIVENESS in both People and Organisations.

I'm especially interested in helping organisations and people become effective at what they do.

• When employees act like encrypted smartphones – series 1 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on April 15, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Well, let us be blunt on this one. Don’t managers all over the world grapple with this dilemma – how to get maximum productivity from their employees.  Managers, the good ones at that, will know that apart from the employees’… Read More ›

• Easter, the Abrahamic religions and creating an apolitical workplace

  By AB Gabazira on April 1, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Do you dream of having an apolitical workplace? A workplace where everyone one is not interested or involved in political acrobatics? Is this wishful thinking, after all, workplaces are run and dominated by humans? Humans are by their nature political… Read More ›

• Is Uganda’s education system – a poverty factory? Series 2 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on March 25, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Do you know that in Uganda, over 64% of the youth are unemployed and that 75% of the population is below the age of 30?  The official definition for youth in Uganda: 18-30 years – and this makes the unemployment… Read More ›

• Is Uganda’s education system – a poverty factory? Series 1 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on March 18, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  If it weren’t for the want of human socialisation and relationship building, parents in Uganda could educate their children at home using Google – Siri and Alexa digital assistants. What is the purpose of going to school daily in a… Read More ›

• Ubuntu – getting the best out of the Ugandan worker in me

  By AB Gabazira on March 11, 2018 • ( 5 )

  

  We all grow up watching how those we live and work with, manage other people. Proximity to particular cultures and the habits that develop from such closeness, make us learn and embrace certain management habits. We also learn to defend,… Read More ›

• What will ultimately kill your brand?

  By AB Gabazira on March 4, 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  Every organisation has a purpose for doing what it does. Organisations are living organisms – purposeful and with life. We are yet to come across an organisation that has been formed to do nothing. Even shell-companies, for those interested in… Read More ›

• CEO – organisational culture circuit-breaker? Series 2 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on February 25, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  In Series 1, we referred to his Holiness Pope Francis as not only the ‘CEO’ of the Catholic church but also the organisational-culture circuit breaker. What is a circuit breaker after all? A circuit breaker is an automatically operated electrical… Read More ›

• CEO – organisational culture circuit-breaker? Series 1 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on February 11, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  The connection between organisational-culture and the circuit-breaker may come as a surprise to many of you. Why should we even think of ‘breaking’ as opposed to ‘taming’ culture? After all, when it comes to matters change, contemporary change management theory… Read More ›

• The organisation-development X-ray (ODX)

  By AB Gabazira on February 4, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  It has been eleven (11) months since we wrote the first blog of the Effective organisation – organisational vitals and bionic balance series. We have written over forty (40) blogs on the subject. We set out to answer the question: what… Read More ›

• Negotiation proficiency a non-negotiable for the 21st Century leader!

  By AB Gabazira on January 28, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  When people discuss the profile and enablers of an effective leader, power is top of the list. To do their work well, leaders require outright power. Leaders crave outright power because when they attain the state of powerfulness, they can… Read More ›