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I have worked in International development, and with respected International development agencies, for over 20 years.

I continue to get 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.

• Our time management homily – Series 2 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on January 19, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  So, last week, we ended on the note that: there is a quiet, invisible debate about the elasticity or inelasticity of time. That there is a stretchiness about the phenomenon of time in Uganda – we remind you all again,… Read More ›

• Our time management homily – Series 1 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on January 12, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  Now, being the true Ugandans we have been and shall forever want to be, we longed to return home from our sojourn lifestyle of the recent past. For several weeks now, actually months, we have been back in Uganda, a… Read More ›

• Brexit Management lessons – negotiating the D.Trump way — Gabazira’s blog

  By AB Gabazira on January 4, 2020 • ( 0 )

  The Effectiveness lab has chosen to forego its traditional Dec./New-year series, for the “We told you!” post-Brexit series – a reflection on leadership and management lessons for practitioners that want to analyse and learn from the Brexit dynamics – going back to the lab’s deep interest in Brexit leadership and management lessons

  How did Boris Johnson get to where he is today? Did he take tips from the best in the game?

• Believe! — Gabazira’s blog

  By AB Gabazira on January 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  The Effectiveness lab has chosen to forego its traditional Dec./New-year series, for the “We told you!” post-Brexit series – a reflection on leadership and management lessons for practitioners that want to analyse and learn from the Brexit dynamics – going back to the lab’s deep interest in Brexit leadership and management lessons

  How did Boris Johnson get to where he is today?

  Do you want to take lessons, free at that, in belief-dynamics from Boris? It may just deliver you a successful 2020 – personally and at the organisation – right?

• The Brexit cacophony – how to be heard — Gabazira’s blog

  By AB Gabazira on December 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

  The Effectiveness lab has chosen to forego its traditional Dec./New-year series, for the “We told you!” post-Brexit series – a reflection on leadership and management lessons for practitioners that want to analyse and learn from the Brexit dynamics – going back to the lab’s deep interest in Brexit leadership and management lessons

  How did Boris Johnson get to where he is today?

• The one and obvious leadership lesson from the Brexit melodrama — Gabazira’s blog

  By AB Gabazira on December 22, 2019 • ( 0 )

  We at the Effectiveness lab continue the ‘we-told-you!’ post-Brexit series, going back to our blogs – that predicted what would happen in time. This week’s re-blog is the: Brexit melodrama and leadership dynamics

  We were spot on!

• By AB Gabazira on December 15, 2019 • ( 0 )

  gabazira.com/2019/06/23/brexit-and-the-choice-of-leader-acrobatics/

• Can CLASS be ascribed to organisations as it’s to humans? Series 2 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on December 5, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  At the end of series one, we promised to outline research and evidence regarding the manifestations of classic organisations. And other than pretend that we can teach organisation class, we opined that working backwards from manifestations of class at organisations,… Read More ›

• Can CLASS be ascribed to organisations as it’s to humans? Series 1 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on November 24, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  We are discussing class at organisations this and next week You have come across people that refer to others as a class apart. Yes, some women and men are a class act. They are referred to as class and in… Read More ›

• Organisation-culture hygiene mischief – Series 2 of 2

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

  

  It’s apparent from series 1 that organisational culture is a vital part of an organisation’s machinery and its optimal functionality. You can’t choose, if you are a smart leader or owner, not to pay attention to culture and its hygiene… Read More ›