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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.

• Do you waste time in valueless meetings?

  By AB Gabazira on September 23, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Are meetings the inevitable corporate scourge? Meetings cause anxiety, pain, and frustration for many in the corporate world. How long are the meetings that you are asked to attend? Do meetings add value to your work or are they merely… Read More ›

• The Yin and Yang of decision making

  By AB Gabazira on September 16, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Do you know where your organization’s or even government decisions get made and how effective all this is? It’s apparent that companies and governments have functions as well as products/services. The two exhibit a yin and yang affair when it… Read More ›

• Organisations don’t change, people change

  By AB Gabazira on September 9, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  We all, time and again, experience solo or group institution-bashing tantrums. We whine about things small and big to do with the institution.  Institution-bashing is so presumptuous that we don’t realize doing so doesn’t solve the organization’s problems and that… Read More ›

• The new skills dilemma – the 4th revolution Series 2 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on September 2, 2018 • ( 0 )

  So, we ended Series 1 last week asking what needed doing to stem the effects of the so-called 4th revolution. A revolution that is changing the manner in which labour is trained and deployed, the skills demand pattern, and how… Read More ›

• The new skills dilemma – the 4th revolution Series 1 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on August 26, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Who should be interested in this blog series? Parents of generation-Z kids, millennials, HR leaders, the education industry, and CEOs. For the last 100 years plus, one needed hard-skills to get into the labour market. Hard skills like: civil-engineering, mechanical… Read More ›

• 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 • ( 4 )

  

  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 ›