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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.

• Digital and the social revolution in homes – Series 2 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on November 11, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Because the boundary between work and home is blurred, digitization has extended to the home. Digital assistants are with us everywhere, including in the toilet and shower. Digital assistants and programs are nurturing the young and helping humankind to relate…. Read More ›

• Digital and the social revolution in homes – Series 1 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on November 4, 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  Human behavior mostly mimics the ‘code’ that was used to programme our brain when growing up. We can’t dispense with the need for young human beings needing to be groomed by fellow human beings. It’s only natural for mankind to… Read More ›

• What CEOs can learn from film producers

  By AB Gabazira on October 28, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  We are currently reading an interesting book – Design thinking for school leaders by A.Gallagher and K.Thordarson. The book explores how sustainable change happens in traditionally unchangeable education industry in the USA. Apparently – there is much that contemporary change… Read More ›

• Diversity not a mere tick-box exercise – corporate optics 2 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on October 21, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  As per last week’s blog, there is a quite a bit of practicing diversity for diversity’s sake going on. The so-called diversity for optics narrative. Apparently, there are two schools of thought that influence plus determine the impact of diversity… Read More ›

• Diversity not a mere tick-box exercise – corporate optics 1 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on October 14, 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  There may be no other country on earth, where diversity and inclusion – at every level, but more so the corporate and political spheres where power and influence are vested in the hands of a privileged and powerful class, are… Read More ›

• The fallacy that deploying more staff resources fixes workload

  By AB Gabazira on October 7, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Do you get up worried about the amount of work waiting for you at the office and how resource constrained you are to clear it? It’s a familiar story in this era of ‘doing more for less’ Leaders and managers… Read More ›

• Burning the midnight oil doesn’t make you more smart or effective

  By AB Gabazira on September 30, 2018 • ( 11 )

  

  All hours aren’t equal and working long hours does not necessarily mean greater productivity – New Zealand We all stay up late at night to complete a piece of work. And the next morning, many of you feel happy and… Read More ›

• 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 ›