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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.

• Diversity not a mere tick-box exercise – corporate optics 1 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on October 14, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  There may be no other country on earth, where diversity and inclusion – at every level, but more so the corporate and political spheres where power and influence are vested in the hands of a privileged and powerful class, are… Read More ›

• The fallacy that deploying more staff resources fixes workload

  By AB Gabazira on October 7, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Do you get up worried about the amount of work waiting for you at the office and how resource constrained you are to clear it? It’s a familiar story in this era of ‘doing more for less’ Leaders and managers… Read More ›

• Burning the midnight oil doesn’t make you more smart or effective

  By AB Gabazira on September 30, 2018 • ( 11 )

  

  All hours aren’t equal and working long hours does not necessarily mean greater productivity – New Zealand We all stay up late at night to complete a piece of work. And the next morning, many of you feel happy and… Read More ›

• Do you waste time in valueless meetings?

  By AB Gabazira on September 23, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Are meetings the inevitable corporate scourge? Meetings cause anxiety, pain, and frustration for many in the corporate world. How long are the meetings that you are asked to attend? Do meetings add value to your work or are they merely… Read More ›

• The Yin and Yang of decision making

  By AB Gabazira on September 16, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Do you know where your organization’s or even government decisions get made and how effective all this is? It’s apparent that companies and governments have functions as well as products/services. The two exhibit a yin and yang affair when it… Read More ›

• Organisations don’t change, people change

  By AB Gabazira on September 9, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  We all, time and again, experience solo or group institution-bashing tantrums. We whine about things small and big to do with the institution.  Institution-bashing is so presumptuous that we don’t realize doing so doesn’t solve the organization’s problems and that… Read More ›

• The new skills dilemma – the 4th revolution Series 2 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on September 2, 2018 • ( 0 )

  So, we ended Series 1 last week asking what needed doing to stem the effects of the so-called 4th revolution. A revolution that is changing the manner in which labour is trained and deployed, the skills demand pattern, and how… Read More ›

• The new skills dilemma – the 4th revolution Series 1 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on August 26, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Who should be interested in this blog series? Parents of generation-Z kids, millennials, HR leaders, the education industry, and CEOs. For the last 100 years plus, one needed hard-skills to get into the labour market. Hard skills like: civil-engineering, mechanical… Read More ›

• Modesty and humility aren’t equal to weak leadership

  By AB Gabazira on August 19, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Saturday 18th August, 2018 while waiting for a haircut at a Nairobi city saloon, I read on the TV screen that Koffi Annan former UN Secretary-General was dead. My mind raced back to the period of the Genocide in Rwanda… Read More ›

• Opportunity-myopia – getting your 5-years-old genius back

  By AB Gabazira on August 12, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  From where we stand – we see youth and post-youth unemployment as a ticking time bomb. Unemployment is attributed to many factors – bad politics and governance, corruption, bad-economics, lack of skills, rigid agrarian economic regimes, etc. However, this blog… Read More ›