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🌍 AI Summary: A fundamental shift is reshaping international development labour market The Challenge ⚖️ INGO workers losing jobs while national NGOs struggle to find talent Skills supply not matching actual demand Deep perception barriers preventing natural labour flow The Mismatch 🔄 INGO Strengths: Global program management Donor relationships & compliance Strategic frameworks Crisis…

An AI summary series from The Effectiveness Lab’s monologues – your difference is your advantage – right? Share if this resonates: Your weird is your wonderful, and your different is your dividend. 💡 Stop Apologising for Being Different Your uniqueness isn’t a flaw to fix, it’s your competitive advantage waiting to be unleashed. When you embrace authenticity, you unlock incredible…

You know that person in your life; the one who always shows up an hour plus later? The individual who walks into meetings after everyone is already seated? The friend who makes you wait at restaurants so often you’ve memorized the menu before they arrive? The household that runs on a flipped schedule and every thing is late? The company that loses value to truncated meetings? The system and…

Can we deliver to the principles of entrepreneurship and not kinpreneurship? Fellow country men and women, when a plane crashes, everyone on the metal tube, devoid of class, incinerates including those in first-class. Oh Uganda! may God uphold thee,… In this land, the Pearl of Africa’s Crown, we practice kinpreneurship, doing what we believe is only human – passing favours to our blood…

Building on our discussions of leadership archetypes, bottomless economics, and the strategic shift from tactical to strategic thinking The adage “culture eats strategy for breakfast” isn’t merely a management cliché- it’s a fundamental truth that MBA programs hammer into students from day one. Throughout my business management and strategy classes, professors consistently cautioned that…

Unlimited refills are at an end! The charitable sector stands at an inflection point. For decades, these organisations have operated under what we might call “bottomless economics”—a paradigm where mission trumped mechanics, where the urgency of human suffering justified any means of intervention, and where funding seemed perpetually renewable. Today, that era is ending, and the most successful…

Has the Anglican Church, at least within my Nakabugu village neighbourhood, succumbed to usurpers seizing control of its authority, particularly during funeral ceremonies? Is it time to re-engineer the order, customs and protocols at funeral ceremonies? After the December 2024 festivities, I returned to work on the 2nd of January 2025. Early in the morning, I learnt of my maternal cousin’s…

In the ever-evolving business landscape, retaining your best staff is more critical than ever. As companies strive for competitive advantages, they often seek out the most talented individuals in the industry. This reality presents a significant challenge for organizations: how to prevent their top performers from being lured away by other agencies.  Simply the best – humble, diligent and…

Any leader worth the name should work themselves out of a job. You can’t keep the mojo to lead successfully, forever. There is a good reason for having term limits on the nation-state, private sector/other firms, and even families. Leaders can use several rubrics to prepare for a successful transition. One we usually don’t consider very potent in the transition toolbox is ‘leaders taking off PTO’…

At the Effectiveness lab, the credibility of people and society is built on the firm foundation of individual integrity and, subsequently, trust. That, when we say something to someone, it should be considered the truth. The trust of others that you are truthful is your alibi in society. Freedom from suspicion/doubt by the other side that we are engaging is the rent we pay for seamless,…

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. Hygiene postmortem + choose the right fix In this blog, hygiene, or organisational hygiene as we chose to call it, is directly attributed to the state of corporate culture and…

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, till it’s too late is something to…

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 – we…