Turbulence is constant. Elevation is a choice.
Fragmented media. Shifting behaviour. Competitive noise.
The winning brands aren't fighting harder, they're thinking higher.
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I am deeply saddened by the reports of deaths and injuries - including of journalists and medical personnel - connected to protests and street demonstrations in Kenya.
I urge the Kenyan authorities to exercise restraint, and call for all demonstrations to take place peacefully.
Even at the peak of demonstrations in Kenya in 1992, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2017 & 2023, no political formation was able to pull huge demonstrations in every town in Kenya same day. Gen Z are having simultaneous demonstrations in Nairobi, Mombasa, Eldoret, Kisumu, Kakamega, Nyeri, Thika, Malindi, Kilifi, Ngong, Kitengela, Kisii et al .. Only a madman will dismiss them … This Youth have unleashed people’s power that Raila Odinga, Kenneth Matiba, Martin Shikuku, Charles Rubia, George Anyona, Kivutha Kibwana, Willy Mutunga et al never had .. We are in the throes of true revolution .. #RejectFinanceBill2024
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KENYAN WORKERS ARE DISHONEST
I got the opportunity to meet 6 rich men this weekend and I asked them a question that:
'Why are they not building factories for the youth of this country to get job to do?
They burst into laughter as if I have said something funny, then one said
The people shouting no food and jobs are all thieves!!
I was like really!!
He continued……”I run a manufacturing business and a trading business.
The biggest challenge in my manufacturing business is not Kenya power, or infrastructure, the biggest challenge is getting HONEST WORKERS.
Everyone we hire appears to be on a mission to steal as much as possible, Inflated invoices, recording less than the actual number of units produced, finding everything within their power to beat the system.
The worst part of it all is that all the fraud we've uncovered is NOT done by a single person, it's usually many staff who collude with each other, from production, to sales, to finance, even top management.
There was a year I overhauled management 3 times in a year.
But I've found a solution. I now use Indian expatriate management. They are more competent, so honest and so straightforward.
I thought they were expensive at first with all the visa fees, accommodation, house staff, but now that losses due to staff theft have been reduced to a minimum, and efficiency increased, the Indian management has turned out to be cheaper than the previous African management.
Now, all sensitive positions involving money go to Indians. Africans are only allowed in non-sensitive positions.
I used to criticize indigenous Kenyan companies like the MRM or Tononoka Group that hire so many Indians when there are many unemployed Africans, but now, I understand their painful decision.
My biggest challenge in the trading business is the same, getting honest staff. The form of trading occurs in the open market, and involves staff having access to huge sums of money running into a few millions.
I know how much I pay to security companies to provide escorts for the staff, not to prevent robbery, but to ensure that the staff go straight to the bank to deposit the money after the day's sales and not disappear with my money.
This money spent on security companies is even enough to be declared as profit. We have to spend on CCTV, biometric scanners and other things that wouldn't be needed if staff weren't looking for the slightest opportunity to steal.
It got so bad at a point that my main criteria for employing staff was no longer competency or certificates, but honesty.
At least, competency and skills can be learnt, but once you're dishonest, you're dishonest.
We always complain of the economy and how there are no jobs. I know people abroad who would have loved to set up job creating businesses in Kenya or across different african countries but they can't because they can't get any trustworthy person to run it
When I lost my UN job, none of my former colleagues, except very few, even bothered to call. Lesson: Your colleagues are not your friends, and sometimes even your friends are not your friends.