[kictanet] The big Kwaheri: reflecting on 10 years on the MJ 10yr safari and his-tory - day 4

[Joseph Mucheru]

Well said Muriuki,

I think the biggest need in Kenya today and Africa as a whole is jobs. One
of the challenges of this is managing the very young teams with so much
energy and it is clear MJ was able to do this well in Safaricom. Can he now
take up a challenge of setting up or taking over a business that can scale
to employ over 100,000 full time workers within 5 years. I know you are
probably asking what they will be doing. This can be the subject of another
forum. He has been able to show he can generate US$ 1billion+ this is a
great milestone for Kenya and Africa. Hiring 100,000 Staff in an institution
will be another. Wal-Mart for example has a workforce of over 2.2 million
(see below).

I would propose that we as lister come up with potential businesses we can
acquire and get MJ to run and create these number of jobs. Hope this is not
too utopian

Wal-Mart Stores Inc
(WMT<http://www.dailyfinance.com/quotes/wal-mart-stores-inc/wmt/nys>)
will increase its workforce by 36% in the next five years to take advantage
of growing international demand. The new hires will take the company's
headcount to 3 million, from 2.2 million now, Susan Chambers, executive vice
president for human resources, said at a conference in India.

See full article from DailyFinance:http://srph.it/cyTEHp

Regards

Joe Mucheru


On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:12 PM, muriuki mureithi <
mureithi at summitstrategies.co.ke> wrote:

>  Listers
>
> It can’t be more exciting . we set out to get a 360 degree view of MJ and
> now Dr Ndemo has given as a bird’s eye view    of   MJ  and how he develops
> and executes strategy for Safaricom machine at the board. It is also
> noteworthy as Dr Ndemo mentions that the political terrain is extremely
> slippery but one must wiggle through to remain relevant .  How MJ has done
> it through KANU , NARC and now PNU/ODM is a mystery we need to unravel.  Is
> there a student of politics to help us help    as here?
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> But what should MJ do after hanging the boots at Safaricom is it to write
> books, lecture, start a start-up company to test whether the theories work
> in a different setting etc .... what do you recommend MJ should do from
> October  31st ? should he stay in or out of ICT sector , go politics ( run
> for president as suggested by Charles) , preach, or takeover  one of the
> smaller operators and build it to be  a mega company like
>  ......................
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> cheers
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> Muriuki Mureithi
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