Rink?

http://www.techmtaa.com/...want-bob-collymore-out/

"There seems to be a problem at Safaricom. East and Central Africa’s biggest telco is facing senior management problems as the Board of Directors of Safaricom feel that the shareholders are not getting a good return on their investment. Citing various touchy issues, the board members sitting sometime last week before the annual general meeting (AGM), were rumoured to have demanded that Bob Collymore resign as the CEO of the listed company.

Bob Collymore is one very flexible and hands-on manager if you ask me. He is a keen listener and a team player unlike Michael Joseph who was more of a dictator and a political spin-master. But maybe the old men and women sitting in the board of the firm have not understoon the management style of Bob Collymore. They are reported to have raised issue with very petty matters like Bob Collymore’s love life during theor sitting.

Who does not have problems in family? I can confess that I have problems in my family and I can point to you 3 Safaricom board members who will never maintain or successfully manage their own family. But does that affect the delivery of Bob professionally? NO!! I guess he knows how to handle both without any interfering with the other.

So Bob Collymore is going through a separation with his wife and that is a MAJOR issue at the Safaricom board.

Secondly, Safaricom board has been complaining for some time that Bob Collymore is intellectually shallow than his peers (read: friends) in the industry. I don’t know what they mean by this but most of the great managers and pioneers in innovation have not so much “intellectual superiority.” The board came to this conclusion having analysed Bob’s friends like Aly Khan Satchu and Jeff Koinange who does not have any deep grasp of the industry."

Hehe! Kwani utachagulia mtu mzima marafiki wake? I think Bob has done reasonably well in a tough environment.
But hio diss ya Aly Khan, Jeff Koinange na Peter Nduati ni mbaya! They are basically being called dumb. Ati "the not so intellectually endowed
managers like Peter Nduati of Resolution Health."

Wah!

Seriously???

the moment he did furi furi dance halafu twirra! clandes

Hii ni kali. Double entendre at its finest.

EMSI is stalking Bob Collymore

A few days ago, I picked up on a lady - Mary Chege @emsiwatoto a Kenyan who apparently came back to Kenya from South Africa recently. She has generated approx. 78 pages of tweets and 42 pages of Facebook posts in an effort to attract Bob's attention. Despite engaging Safaricom Director of Corporate Affairs, no one can calm her and her legalese down!

Her main issue appears to be the old issue of whether MPESA makes Safaricom a deposit taking institution. And in a self-appointed class act manner, is accusing Safaricom of unjust enrichment.
http://www.sabn.za.com/blog.tel...al-institutions-829.html


Frankly speaking, I think she just wants a job. What a way to do it though, so akin to madness. She is now spamming media personalities on twitter on the same issue.

Closely following Sunny Bindra's strategy summit held Mon/Tue at Strathmore Business School, her behaviour demonstrates the problem with social media. Is it possible for a CEO to be too accessible?

Can you imagine what Kibaki would go through if KMPDU/ teachers/ nurses/ lecturers could speak directly to him?

@ Muganda I think some-ones personality has a lot to do with whether a CEO is too accessible. I for one this is a tool for celebrities and media personalities, it 's ok for ie a CEO to have a press office however I get blown my the number of times this guys are on twitter and certainly they sure have a lot more to take in than I do.

I notice the business leaders in this jurisdiction are def not on twitter Guy Laurence,Stephen Hester, Nathaniel Rothchild guys we deal with on a day to day basis and. Can't help but wonder have we taken this accessibility thing way to far?

Thanks guys...
@Ric dees, @quicksand... I'd say what is important for a CEO is to have a way of getting unadulterated facts about your business. Even a president has the same challenge, to find out what is of concern to the citizens.

But it is often said you can't run a country on census polls. Similarly, the need to personally engage with all and sundry reflects a 'celebrity CEO'. But even for any celebrity only OUTPUT carries the day.


@mawinder... MPESA money is normally held in trust by CBA or some other bank. Safaricom channels any 'fund income' to MPESA foundation. Their income is only what they charge you for transaction tarrif and not on the money.

Mary Chege seems to have come down from her legal horse and gone to Westage for Customer Service after silencing her tweets. Bob Collymore's security should be alert during the Safaricom Sevens though

Mary Chege is just the fellow who was not hugged when she was little ...Daddy issues.

Most of the questions she is asking are in the terms and conditions of Mpesa,which safaricom does not own by the way...safaricom acts as an agent of a money transfer solution.The same way western unioun operates.

The issue of deposit taking,CBK licensed the solution so it is within the law and deposits are protected by Law.

The Robert alai article seems far fetched,The board has no power to remove the CEO,Vodafone holds the rights to that...the other thing is mixing personal issues with company's...if what he wrote is the truth then Safaricom problems are with the board not the CEO...the issues they were raising are petty in My view.