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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.

• 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 ›

• The trials and tribulations of the end of an era at an institution or family

  By AB Gabazira on April 20, 2019 • ( 17 )

  

  They come and go – and it’s only right that we let go when called upon to do so. After all, even if we didn’t want to let go, we ain’t God!

• Organisational citizenship – the good and ugly

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

  

  Organisational citizenship deals with the actions and behaviors that are not required by workers, but benefit the team and encourage even greater organizational functioning and efficiency. And it’s something many organisations take for granted – how wrong they are! “Good organisational… Read More ›

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

  By AB Gabazira on March 31, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Gabazira's blog:
  Even those people that believe are perfect, fail. We all do wrong – only that to some people, accepting wrongdoing is wrong. Get up and ‘right’ your wrong Not accepting one’s wrongs equates to…

• Mixing symptoms and management problems

  By AB Gabazira on March 24, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Gabazira's blog:
  We continue to observe a persistent pattern in the OD manifestations in organizations. Managers and those that work for them don’t always differentiate OD symptoms from management problems. Signs are looked at as management…

• CEOs – take one for the team

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

  

  Originally posted on Gabazira's blog:
  CEOs are accountable for the success or failure at their organizations. CEOs are human and therefore, fallible. Things go wrong, and that’s normal. CEOs, even the omnipotent type, will never change one thing: stumbling…

• The Leadership conundrum: if you are a leader and you like to be loved, get a dog!

  By AB Gabazira on March 10, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Gabazira's blog:
  Last week the Effectiveness-lab discussed certain effective-leadership archetypes and accompanying behavioral traits. Leaders grapple with a critical challenge – when to be ‘friends’ with the ‘led’ and when to be the boss that says…