Kenyans Have no capacity to Run Complex Companies

[KenyanPlato]

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I think Kenya does not have enough corporate leadership capacity to run complex organization. All the best performers in kenya has Mzungu capital and leadership. From EABL to SafariCON. I think if we gave Mzungu KPL they can turn it around in a decade and make power affordable. Looking at that CEO of KPL you can smell her incompetence from 16,000 miles away.

I think we should leave complex corporate leadership to Mzungu. Mwaafrika aendele Kudance Kilumi na Kuzaa ovyo ovyo kama Panya

[RV Pundit]

Very true.

[KenyanPlato]

Very true.

Africans need to be taught Strategic thinking. I took Business Management and Policy. The class was hard for me because I could not think like a Firestone or Walt Disney Manager. The biggest organization I had ever seen in Kenya was KCB. which then was nothing but MOI's Wallet. My dad used to be an Auditor in KCB. I read his reports and there was serious corruption going under Donald Kipkorir leadership. My dad actually took early retirement. he could not stomach the corruption

[RV Pundit]

Also very true. Mwafrika just emerged from poverty. He is not going to think long term or strategically. Unless it's Mwangi type Equity Bank - where owner is the CEO - and he has personal stake at it.

The rest will most likely steal and bring down the company.

Africans need to be taught Strategic thinking. I took Business Management and Policy. The class was hard for me because I could not think like a Firestone or Walt Disney Manager. The biggest organization I had ever seen in Kenya was KCB. which then was nothing but MOI's Wallet. My dad used to be an Auditor in KCB. I read his reports and there was serious corruption going under Donald Kipkorir leadership. My dad actually took early retirement. he could not stomach the corruption

[Kadudu]

KPL and many of the parastatals in Kenya are run by political correct people. The appointed are just close to those in power and do not need to be qualified or fit for those offices. Look at almost 90% of parastals now run by Kikuyu or Kalejin. No one can tell me the two are the best performers in school or university and all the other 40 ethnic groups are just bystanders in school.
Unless we move away from those ethnic based appointments to more competence, we are in deep trouble.
 

I think Kenya does not have enough corporate leadership capacity to run complex organization. All the best performers in kenya has Mzungu capital and leadership. From EABL to SafariCON. I think if we gave Mzungu KPL they can turn it around in a decade and make power affordable. Looking at that CEO of KPL you can smell her incompetence from 16,000 miles away.

I think we should leave complex corporate leadership to Mzungu. Mwaafrika aendele Kudance Kilumi na Kuzaa ovyo ovyo kama Panya

[gout]

Even KCB current good were due to buddyism between Oigara and Bob Collymore in the bois club.

[RV Pundit]

It has little to do with tribalism. Even private sector Nyeuthi is still unable to think long term and strategical. You still need expats. I tell you I worked before in NGO - that had to complete shift finance from Kenya - everyone in kenya is super corrupt. And without expats that NGO would die.

Our problem is we have poverty or scarcity mentality - we think we need to stash as much as we can - because winter is coming.

So whenever we get an opportunity - we want to make hay while the sun shines.

You cannot blame mwafrika - opportunities are hard to come by - so you gotta maximumize.

KPL and many of the parastatals in Kenya are run by political correct people. The appointed are just close to those in power and do not need to be qualified or fit for those offices. Look at almost 90% of parastals now run by Kikuyu or Kalejin. No one can tell me the two are the best performers in school or university and all the other 40 ethnic groups are just bystanders in school.
Unless we move away from those ethnic based appointments to more competence, we are in deep trouble.
 

I think Kenya does not have enough corporate leadership capacity to run complex organization. All the best performers in kenya has Mzungu capital and leadership. From EABL to SafariCON. I think if we gave Mzungu KPL they can turn it around in a decade and make power affordable. Looking at that CEO of KPL you can smell her incompetence from 16,000 miles away.

I think we should leave complex corporate leadership to Mzungu. Mwaafrika aendele Kudance Kilumi na Kuzaa ovyo ovyo kama Panya