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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.

• Can our Ugandan kindred wean off begging?

  By AB Gabazira on December 20, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Every time I travel upcountry to our parents country home, I purposely observe the many manifestations of enduring poverty and desperation. It’s too abundant – and one has to be careful not to start seeing it via the lens of… Read More ›

• COVID 19 in the household – a very different kettle of fish

  By AB Gabazira on December 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Well well well – we write about matters effectiveness on this blog, mostly from the OD. lens. Yet this time around, it’s COVID-19 that has effectively dealt with our household. If it were a football match – we are beaten…. Read More ›

• Indiscipline a forte and is it okay?

  By AB Gabazira on November 15, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  Don’t we all occasionally have to make the choice whether to be the conformist type that goes with the order of the day (or what the boss wants) vs the errant, rebellious, nonconformist type that keeps going against the normal?… Read More ›

• Do we need strategic plans? Series 2 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on October 30, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Putting aside the debate about the cumbersome and mind-boggling nature of strategy, we at the Effectiveness lab strongly opine that you need a strategy to run a business effectively. The belief by some people that you don’t need a strategy… Read More ›

• Do we need strategic plans? Series 1 of 2


  By AB Gabazira on October 18, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  So, why are leaders surprised when they ask and can’t answer the question: ‘are we making progress in whatever we are paid to do?’ Leaders and senior managers deal, or should deal with strategic stuff in day to day business… Read More ›

• Do you pay ‘rent’ for your success?

  By AB Gabazira on September 27, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  They have done it, I will also do the same. Why not? …about 60% [youth in East Africa] admired those who used get-rich-quick schemes. And more than half believed it didn’t matter how one makes money while 53% said they… Read More ›

• Don’t be ‘the first’ but ‘the best’

  By AB Gabazira on September 13, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  At the Effectiveness Lab, we present our thoughts via the effectiveness/efficiency lens. We are efficacy-junkies and ultimately would wish for all that we do as individuals to be rated top because it’s quintessential; and not because we carry individual perceptions… Read More ›

• We are all retiring into farming – Uganda’s new social security craze

  By AB Gabazira on September 6, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  In a system where a social safety net is a dream, the tendency to opt for the ‘self-service’ option is a route many of you have and shall continue to choose. We have observed a trend in the choice of… Read More ›

• Should we work for organisations whose culture orientation is the same as ours?

  By AB Gabazira on August 23, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  This week we discuss organisation vs. individual culture dilemma. Should we work for organisations that share the same culture orientation as us? And, what is on offer for organisation culture? Mono or poly culture? Traditionally, culture at organisations tends to… Read More ›

• COVID-19 prevention guidelines – blank slate at Buliike Village, Luuka District

  By AB Gabazira on August 9, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  When it comes to COVID-19 prevention, there is a not very visible bottleneck: policy enforcement vs. culture/mindset enigma. This is a true story originating from Buliike, Luuka district, a few kilometres from Nakabugu, our other ancestral base. Now, COVID-19 has… Read More ›