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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.

• The trials and tribulations of the end of an era at an institution or family

  By AB Gabazira on April 20, 2019 • ( 14 )

  

  They come and go – and it’s only right that we let go when called upon to do so. After all, even if we didn’t want to let go, we ain’t God!

• Organisational citizenship – the good and ugly

  By AB Gabazira on April 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Organisational citizenship deals with the actions and behaviors that are not required by workers, but benefit the team and encourage even greater organizational functioning and efficiency. And it’s something many organisations take for granted – how wrong they are! “Good organisational… Read More ›

• Effective managers are ever keen to ‘right’ a wrong

  By AB Gabazira on March 31, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Gabazira's blog:
  Even those people that believe are perfect, fail. We all do wrong – only that to some people, accepting wrongdoing is wrong. Get up and ‘right’ your wrong Not accepting one’s wrongs equates to…

• Mixing symptoms and management problems

  By AB Gabazira on March 24, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Gabazira's blog:
  We continue to observe a persistent pattern in the OD manifestations in organizations. Managers and those that work for them don’t always differentiate OD symptoms from management problems. Signs are looked at as management…

• CEOs – take one for the team

  By AB Gabazira on March 17, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Gabazira's blog:
  CEOs are accountable for the success or failure at their organizations. CEOs are human and therefore, fallible. Things go wrong, and that’s normal. CEOs, even the omnipotent type, will never change one thing: stumbling…

• The Leadership conundrum: if you are a leader and you like to be loved, get a dog!

  By AB Gabazira on March 10, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Gabazira's blog:
  Last week the Effectiveness-lab discussed certain effective-leadership archetypes and accompanying behavioral traits. Leaders grapple with a critical challenge – when to be ‘friends’ with the ‘led’ and when to be the boss that says…

• Pennilessness and its untruth on the character of man

  By AB Gabazira on March 3, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Gabazira's blog:
  At the Effectiveness lab, we believe in the authenticity of character – others may like to call it integrity. Whatever name you want to call it, it is all about: personal genuineness or originality.…

• Your individuality and situational fit

  By AB Gabazira on February 24, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  This week’s blog concludes our Individuality monologues: the tendency to match human beings to global-average metrics (at times entirely meaningless for the individual) has been challenged. You just want to be you, after all, that is what makes you happy… Read More ›

• Your difference is your advantage – right?

  By AB Gabazira on February 17, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  In this blog, we continue our February discourse on individuality and how it makes you an effective: employee, family member, social acquaintance, and citizen. In our first two blogs – February 2019 – we explained why it’s essential for you… Read More ›

• You are more effective when you choose to be you – 2 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on February 10, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Let’s start off this week’s blog, the second in the series ‘You are more effective when you choose to be you,’ by making it very clear that we aren’t calling for rebellion or dissent in companies, families and other social… Read More ›