Leadership
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Organisational Hygiene – the forgotten ingredient at work
The word hygiene originates from the 16th-century modern Latin ‘hygieina’, meaning the art of health. Today – hygiene indicates practices conducive to maintaining health and preventing disease, primarily via cleanness. In this blog, hygiene, or organisational hygiene as we chose to call it, is directly attributed to the state of corporate culture and the impact… Continue reading
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The anti-system voice and the greasy path for leaders and organisations
In our custom apolitical manner, the Effectiveness lab in this blog juxtaposes the anti-system influence in recent French politics against the politics of the modern organisation. We hope leaders listen to us, as this is something that brings leaders down all the time. The disregard and complacency towards the foe within your organisational eco-system, usually,… Continue reading
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Leadership – the results business. Series 2 of 2
We ended series one asking whether your organisation has a PRoI (People Return on Investment) index. We wondered if the organisation considers people an ‘investment’ and whether the organisation is deliberate about defining staff ‘productivity-leveraging’ metrics to measure and monitor PRoI. If the organisation does neither of these, especially the deliberateness around the individual PRoI… Continue reading
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Leadership – the results business. Series 1 of 2
Daily at the Effectiveness lab, we observe instances, and many at that, where individuals get too focused on the nuts and bolts of their business value chain processes and activities and don’t remember to see the ‘Z’ point. These individuals wake up daily and do, do and do. Only by ‘doing’, they focus on process… Continue reading
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Moulding CEOs – the different ingredients
What are CEOs made of? How are these creatures at the top of institutions made? And we are sure you all have heard or used phrases like leaders are born. And that if you weren’t born a leader, you are condemned to never break the ceiling to the top of the organisation. Wrong, we opine… Continue reading
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Sunglass leaders – the filter effect that casts everything in one colour
This week – our focus is on what we call, for purposes of this blog, the ‘sunglass’ leader. A leader whose manners demand of those they lead, to see the world through one lens and colour – their lens. It’s akin to wearing sunglasses, that we know place a filter between the eye and what… Continue reading
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Brexit Management lessons – negotiating the D.Trump way — Gabazira’s blog
The Effectiveness lab has chosen to forego its traditional Dec./New-year series, for the “We told you!” post-Brexit series – a reflection on leadership and management lessons for practitioners that want to analyse and learn from the Brexit dynamics – going back to the lab’s deep interest in Brexit leadership and management lessons How did Boris… Continue reading
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Believe! — Gabazira’s blog
The Effectiveness lab has chosen to forego its traditional Dec./New-year series, for the “We told you!” post-Brexit series – a reflection on leadership and management lessons for practitioners that want to analyse and learn from the Brexit dynamics – going back to the lab’s deep interest in Brexit leadership and management lessons How did Boris… Continue reading
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The Brexit cacophony – how to be heard — Gabazira’s blog
The Effectiveness lab has chosen to forego its traditional Dec./New-year series, for the “We told you!” post-Brexit series – a reflection on leadership and management lessons for practitioners that want to analyse and learn from the Brexit dynamics – going back to the lab’s deep interest in Brexit leadership and management lessons How did Boris… Continue reading
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The one and obvious leadership lesson from the Brexit melodrama — Gabazira’s blog
We at the Effectiveness lab continue the ‘we-told-you!’ post-Brexit series, going back to our blogs – that predicted what would happen in time. This week’s re-blog is the: Brexit melodrama and leadership dynamics We were spot on! Continue reading
About Me
Apollo B. Gabazira is an Ugandan OD. junkie fascinated by matters that render organisations/individuals effective or not. He blogs on effective leadership and management. He is a devoted green-farmer and breeds the Ayrshire cow at Nakabugu, Luuka district, Uganda. Apollo is quite effective at what he chooses to do.