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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.

• Strategy making – from theory to practice

  By AB Gabazira on July 16, 2017 • ( 4 )

  It’s time to discuss the nuts and bolts of strategy making. Early in this Strategy OV series, the Effectiveness lab defined strategy as: a plan, a unique and valuable position that others cannot match, or a journey that takes a… Read More ›

• Strategy making (1)

  By AB Gabazira on July 9, 2017 • ( 0 )

  This week, the Effective lab focuses on the making of strategy. Just like the word strategy is not understood well yet used by many people in their daily lexicon, strategy design is an equally mixed experience. It’s difficult to design what… Read More ›

• Strategy Management – the new normal (3)

  By AB Gabazira on July 2, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  And finally, the solution to the so-called new normal. What can organisations and individuals do to effectively address the new normal? The Effectiveness lab’s bionically-balanced entity theory is an obvious answer to the new normal.  It’s a multi-faceted and inter-twined… Read More ›

• Strategy Management – the new normal (2)

  By AB Gabazira on June 25, 2017 • ( 4 )

  So, if we all agree that we are witnessing a new normal in strategy management, the question has to be: how do we deal with the new normal? However, before discussing solutions to the new-normal enigma, we explore below the… Read More ›

• Strategy management – the new normal (1)

  By AB Gabazira on June 18, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Our last blog defined strategy and ended on a wish that: you all should be able to define strategy. This blog focuses on the shifting strategy management paradigm – the Effectiveness lab calls it ‘the new normal‘. Strategy theorists like… Read More ›

• Many can’t define strategy yet use the word all the time – can you?

  By AB Gabazira on June 4, 2017 • ( 5 )

  

  This week’s blog is the first in a series that discusses the second of the Effectiveness lab’s four organizational vitals (OV) – strategy. Before delving deep into the strategy OV and its interconnectedness to the other OV’s, we have to… Read More ›

• Leaders – knowing when to quit

  By AB Gabazira on May 28, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  We conclude this leadership organisational-vital blog series by asking an obvious question. When should a leader quit? Leaders, good or bad, are professionally mortal. Leaders should know when the inevitable is starting to happen and leave voluntarily. The inevitable in… Read More ›

• Personifying your leader label – the three label types

  By AB Gabazira on May 21, 2017 • ( 2 )

  Leaders perceive themselves in different ways. Whatever they want to perceive themselves to be, leaders are people – persons – and if you like, individuals. There is something deep-seated about an individual and their behaviour. This is particularly the case… Read More ›

• Servant leadership and its place at the bionically-balanced entity

  By AB Gabazira on May 14, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Leadership is power’s twin. Leadership grants leaders a lot of power, and such power can be used in several ways. Some leaders have used power to coerce others into involuntary submission, others have used power to get consensus in teams,… Read More ›

• Leadership – about mastering the ‘insides’ of an organization

  By AB Gabazira on May 7, 2017 • ( 7 )

  

  In biology, the term ‘insides’ refers to the inner parts of the body, especially the stomach and intestines. Effective leaders at bionically-balanced and smart organizations are gurus in the functioning and dynamics of the ‘insides’ of the organizations they lead…. Read More ›