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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.

• 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 ›

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

  By AB Gabazira on July 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Last week, we sold, and pretty hard at that, the case for the Organisational Effectiveness (OE) Tsar. Companies were encouraged to re-look at the art of running business via a new lens. It can’t be business as usual. Are we… Read More ›

• Management recession: time for an Organisational Effectiveness (OE) function? Series 2 of 3

  By AB Gabazira on July 21, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  It is apparent from Series 1 that the ongoing management-recession at firms needs a fix. And that the fix may be as simple as ‘functionalizing’ effectiveness i.e., making organization-effectiveness (OE) a formal function like finance, HR, etc and appointing a… Read More ›

• 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 • ( 2 )

  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 • ( 4 )

  

  We told you – Boris is PM today and with the biggest majority since the 80’s!