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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.

• Management recession: time for an Organisational Effectiveness (OE) function? Series 1 of 3

  By AB Gabazira on July 14, 2019 • ( 1 )

  This three-part series takes a good look at effectiveness and the case as well as evidence for turning effectiveness into a formal function at the modern organization. We need to stem the entrenched management recession at companies and the ensuing… Read More ›

• You are simply a statistic at work – right?

  By AB Gabazira on July 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  While standing in the queue for my visa interview at the American Embassy in Nairobi, on a chilly July 1st morning, I read from the embassy public TV that the quintessential CEO of Safaricom Kenya, Bob Collymore, was dead. I… Read More ›

• The one and obvious leadership lesson from the Brexit melodrama

  By AB Gabazira on June 30, 2019 • ( 1 )

  On this final day of June 2019, we write our last blog, hopefully, on the Brexit melodrama and the lessons thereof. Learning From Brexit is aplenty for practitioners and students of management and leadership But rather than sharing more experiences… Read More ›

• Brexit and the choice of leader acrobatics

  By AB Gabazira on June 23, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  As expected, the Brexit political carnage has continued this week – but there is progress, and significant at that, towards the choice of party leader and ultimately prime minister of the country. The candidate list has now been whittled down… Read More ›

• The Brexit cacophony – how to be heard

  By AB Gabazira on June 16, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Last week – the Brexit melodrama continued unabated and with the Conservative party leadership race not lacking individuals that purport to be able future PM’s, things are getting noisier. Indeed, the leading contender has referred to the situation as cacophonous… Read More ›

• Brexit Management lessons – leading the TM way

  By AB Gabazira on June 10, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  We are back with the Brexit melodrama monologue, and this week, we delve into matters leadership. And whose leadership style is under the spotlight? Of course, that of the lady that has steered Brexit negotiations till now, Theresa May (TM… Read More ›

• Brexit Management lessons – negotiating the D.Trump way

  By AB Gabazira on June 2, 2019 • ( 3 )

  

  First and foremost: the Effectiveness lab is keen to remind everyone that we are apolitical.  While Brexit is a hotbed of political smear and innuendo, our focus is on the management/leadership lessons from Brexit. We are confident that Brexit has… Read More ›

• 54% of Ugandans are off the internet – blessing or curse? Series 2 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on May 26, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  Based on series 1, it’s not far fetched to consider the internet in Uganda, a tool that aids the exclusion of other people, mostly the poor and vulnerable, by creating a unique and privileged class of users. Indeed, in conclusion,… Read More ›

• 54% of Ugandans are off the internet – blessing or curse? Series 1 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on May 19, 2019 • ( 3 )

  

  Many a time, we assume that all of us are good internet-citizens. And that without the internet, we can’t survive. Well, not really, apparently, 54% of our countrymen and women in Uganda are off the internet, and they haven’t died,… Read More ›

• Leaders and organisations – into harms way or not, type?

  By AB Gabazira on May 5, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  Like many of you, we often read online content. Typically, we scan RSS feeds over a cup of millet porridge in the evening – we recently read content on Quora about Air Force One, the plane that moves the US… Read More ›