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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.

• Organisation-culture hygiene mischief – Series 1 of 2

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

  

  We start with the definition of culture: …organisational culture is “the shared basic assumptions, values, and beliefs that characterise a setting and are taught to newcomers as the proper way to think and feel, communicated by the myths and stories… Read More ›

• Are organizations emphasizing the right critical success-factor?

  By AB Gabazira on October 27, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  If you are like most people, you attribute an organization’s success to many factors: a perfectly crafted strategy, the right structure, appropriate culture and accompanying climate, the right operating environment, the vision of the founder/s, good brains, brand perception and… Read More ›

• Corporate training shenanigans

  By AB Gabazira on October 19, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  Now, companies, and we suspect including yours, spend lots of money on training. The so-called corporate training. To not train staff at a company is equivalent to operating an archaic management paradigm whose place can only be found in the… Read More ›

• Should accountability focus on the end-result or process?

  By AB Gabazira on October 13, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The majority of the products and services we buy or are gifted, come from a system that, like the police force, monitor compliance to process by those that sale labour to employers. And just like we have different cultures in… Read More ›

• Is chronic poor timekeeping amongst certain people an education matter? Series 2 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on October 6, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  So we are back to complete the dialogue on timekeeping and if, it’s an education matter. Last week ended on the note below: “So, are you surprised that the people, especially from the above school generation can’t keep time, without… Read More ›

• Is chronic poor timekeeping amongst certain people an education matter? Series 1 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on September 22, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  For the next two blogs, the Effectiveness lab is discussing the concept of time, its management and education. Is time-management taught formally in schools? Should it be or not? Is the approach to teaching time-management, right? Not long ago, we… Read More ›

• Education commoditisation – the good and bad

  By AB Gabazira on September 6, 2019 • ( 3 )

  

  Not long ago, Uganda’s higher education offer was too standardized – in fact, it was akin to the then CocaCola beverage. You could attain a standardised and quality-assured degree, be it the Bachelors, Masters or Ph.D. from the very few… Read More ›

• Innovation at companies: often touted but lacks the right toolbox – Series 2 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on August 25, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  So – in this series two, the Effectiveness lab addresses the questions: how do leaders, managers, and organizations achieve sustainable innovation? However, before delving into the answer/s to the latter questions, we share below an excerpt from McKinsey that makes… Read More ›

• Innovation at companies: often touted but lacks the right toolbox – Series 1 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on August 11, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  We recently stumbled upon a McKinsey article on innovation, leadership and organization culture – and couldn’t help but reminisce about the many attempts at innovation by ourselves as individuals, but also, other people that we interact with professionally For starters, innovation has… Read More ›

• Believe!

  By AB Gabazira on August 4, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  A word that has so much meaning in management – whether it’s in the day-to-day running of a company, doing a turn-around job at a company and taking it in a new direction, or times of crisis. Leaders and Managers… Read More ›