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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.

• Performance black holes – the worker’s nightmare

  By AB Gabazira on July 8, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  Last week, while talking to a relative from Nakabugu village in Uganda, it became apparent to us that people sometimes work so hard but don’t get positive results for all their hard work. It’s akin to your hard work going down this… Read More ›

• The big-size vs efficiency dilemma

  By AB Gabazira on July 1, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Big or super-big, is considered efficient. This applies to companies, nation states, and even families. Many admire Apple, and its GAFA peers for inching towards the most valuable company status in the world, on the social front, in the Great-Lakes… Read More ›

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

  By AB Gabazira on June 24, 2018 • ( 6 )

  

  Even those people that believe are perfect, fail. We all do wrong – only that to some people, accepting wrongdoing is wrong in itself. Not accepting one’s wrongs equates to not learning from our actions. At the effectiveness lab, we… Read More ›

• Do you have the ‘GAFA’ factor at your workplace?

  By AB Gabazira on June 17, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  GAFA means Google – Apple – Facebook – & Amazon. It’s not an exaggeration to write that these four companies not only control the global economy but are, moreover under insignificant oversight by the governments that should control them, causing… Read More ›

• Renting out replacement relatives – Human mercantilism Series 2 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on June 10, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  The family rental industry in Japan was born to deal with a social enigma – the disintegration of the traditional family into something too nuclear, and that no longer boasts of social relevance.  The modern family numbers are so small… Read More ›

• Renting out replacement relatives – family mercantilism Series 1 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on June 3, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  When we are lonely and sad, throw everything against the wall and nothing sticks, we start to despair. We all lose loved ones and fail to find suitable alternatives – the loss may be caused by death, divorce, anger and… Read More ›

• The increasingly emotive workplace – be wary of team spoilers

  By AB Gabazira on May 27, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  Stand guarded against individuals that damage team dynamics at work. Team spoilers can hide behind their technical brilliance.  Ironically, more often than not, team spoilers create signature-value for the firm.  The latter produces a blind spot for hiring managers and… Read More ›

• The Harry and Meghan KISSTORY – Management hygiene lessons

  By AB Gabazira on May 20, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Hello everyone, especially those of you that profess to best leadership and management practices. Do you, like us, acknowledge that Prince Harry and Meghan’s wedding yesterday, is a first-class lesson in management-hygiene?  The UK media houses have termed the event:… Read More ›

• Job hopping and what it says about you

  By AB Gabazira on May 13, 2018 • ( 5 )

  

  Learn to build a world you yearn for in the world that you inherited.  To those individuals that job hop: serve a minimum of four years in a job. It’s not that difficult if your mind is programmed to view… Read More ›

• The curse of food and work

  By AB Gabazira on May 6, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Are we eating and working ourselves to death? We eat food and die of food. We get a job and die of the job. We do too much work, and end up stressed and brain dead. We eat food and… Read More ›