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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.

• 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 ›

• Why a degree no longer guarantees individual prosperity 2 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on July 29, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  At the Effectiveness lab, we premise most of our discourse on the hypothesis that what is both effective and efficient, ultimately brings efficacy to what we do. But apparently, the education industry may be losing the plot. The academic degree… Read More ›

• Why a degree no longer guarantees individual prosperity 1 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on July 22, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  Are we witnessing, albeit gradually, the demise of the academic degree? Perhaps demise is too big a word to use for the human ‘license’ to individual prosperity (read: degree).  But there is undoubtedly a change-of-guard conversation here. The degree is… Read More ›

• Are you the ‘management-forensics’ leader type?

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

  

  This blog discusses management-forensics. We know that for many people, anything forensic equals crime.  Well, at the Effectiveness lab, we define management-forensics as the deliberate practice to investigate value-addition enablers and killers at companies. Those things that significantly add or… Read More ›

• Performance black holes – the worker’s nightmare

  By AB Gabazira on July 8, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  Last week, while talking to a relative from Nakabugu village in Uganda, it became apparent to us that people sometimes work so hard but don’t get positive results for all their hard work. It’s akin to your hard work going down this… Read More ›

• The big-size vs efficiency dilemma

  By AB Gabazira on July 1, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Big or super-big, is considered efficient. This applies to companies, nation states, and even families. Many admire Apple, and its GAFA peers for inching towards the most valuable company status in the world, on the social front, in the Great-Lakes… Read More ›

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

  By AB Gabazira on June 24, 2018 • ( 6 )

  

  Even those people that believe are perfect, fail. We all do wrong – only that to some people, accepting wrongdoing is wrong in itself. Not accepting one’s wrongs equates to not learning from our actions. At the effectiveness lab, we… Read More ›

• Do you have the ‘GAFA’ factor at your workplace?

  By AB Gabazira on June 17, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  GAFA means Google – Apple – Facebook – & Amazon. It’s not an exaggeration to write that these four companies not only control the global economy but are, moreover under insignificant oversight by the governments that should control them, causing… Read More ›

• Renting out replacement relatives – Human mercantilism Series 2 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on June 10, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  The family rental industry in Japan was born to deal with a social enigma – the disintegration of the traditional family into something too nuclear, and that no longer boasts of social relevance.  The modern family numbers are so small… Read More ›