<font color="#000066"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Whatever Sammy's original intentions were, I do believe firing all the employees was toxic not only for him but for the life of the organization. </font></font><div>
<font color="#000066"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font color="#000066"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It's never the staff that's at fault, typically the leadership. I'll give a few examples:</font></font></div>
<div><font color="#000066"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font color="#000066"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[1] Sun Tzu and Emperor Wu. For those who have read the story, the leadership of the troops to be led by Wu's concubines is all that changed. The troops remained the same.</font></font></div>
<div><font color="#000066"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font color="#000066" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[2] Kenya Airways - Rose to be one of the most profitable companies in EA with basically the same employees. Leadership changed... </font></div>
<div><font color="#000066" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000066" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[3] Safaricom - It was initially a department in Telkom Kenya. Leadership. </font></div>
<div><font color="#000066" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000066" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[4] For the overused example - Apple & Steve Jobs. The nearly bankrupt organization never laid off all it's employees, merely changed the structure. </font></div>
<div><font color="#000066" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000066" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[5] Uchumi - Purely a leadership issue, as was demonstrated very well by Jonathan Ciano. </font></div>
<div><font color="#000066" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000066" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000066" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I believe an approach which begins with getting rid of all the staff is not only myopic but also shows a fundamental inability to inspire/work with diverse people... </font></div>
<div><font color="#000066" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><ul><li><font color="#000066" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Were any of the employees incompetent? </font></li><li><font color="#000066" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Were any of the employees too expensive (i.e. were they being paid more than they were generating?) *<i>I highly doubt this is the case given the ratio of board members to employees</i></font></li>
<li><font color="#000066" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Was there gross misconduct on the part of the employees? </font></li></ul><div><font color="#000066" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">If this is not the case then firing the employee effectively makes the organization 'toxic'. How? </font></div>
</div><div><ul><li><font color="#000066" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Talented individuals will avoid it because it's evidently and openly a caustic environment. </font></li><li><font color="#000066" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Only people who have no alternative will work there given that management has no consideration for tenure (why work for KENIC whilst I can work for an ISP? Pay may be less, visibility/career development etc may take a hit, but I know that I will not be out of a living one day because the CEO's morning coffee was a little too strong).</font></li>
<li><font color="#000066" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Organizational culture/information/know how is lost... You can't document relationships (relationships with suppliers, customers etc). </font></li></ul><div>
<font color="#000066" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Such moves, in my opinion do more harm than good to organizational culture. </font></div></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Ali Hussein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" target="_blank">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Sammy, The BOD at KeNIC and listers at large<br>
<br>We understand
that the board has now restructured the governance of KeNIC in such a
way that it now becomes a 'closed' stakeholder environment? Could you
please kindly clarify this issue. Reading your posting of a few days and
let me quote you here:-<br>
</span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">"...the Strategic
Plan Review that took place last month, the following stakeholders
were selected based on the value they bring to the KENIC Board to enable
KENIC meet its mandate of growing the .ke name space in Kenya." end
quote.<br><br>When can ALL stakeholders have a copy of the Institutional Assessment report? Or is this only for the eyes of the board? or the current perceived stakeholders?<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">My concern here is that shouldn't the AGM have decided on who the new stakeholders are? Who does the Board of Directors report to in this case? </span></div><div>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Correct
me if I'm wrong but what the current status of affairs indicates or
implies is that there is fundamental shift from the current stakeholder
structure to a new one. <br><br>Good Corporate Governance tenets demand that before such fundamental changes are made as to how an AGM is conducted this should be decided by the AGM NOT by the Board of Directors. After all it is at the AGM that Board Members are elected...<br>
<br>We must at all costs ensure that the governance of KeNIC is above board and the way the current situation is it leaves to much speculation and rumor to spread. For the sake of this organisation you must be seen to be beyond reproach.<br>
<br>Having said that I do agree that these are tumultuous times at KeNIC and we must allow reason to take place. I urge everyone to take a step back and let the management and board of KeNIC steer the ship until the AGM which I am hoping will be open to ALL stakeholders and not just the ones that the board feels has a stake in KeNIC.<br>
<br>Ali Hussein<br><br><br></span></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Musya Michael <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.musya@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.musya@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">Already feeling the impact. MPESA transaction yet to reflect...3 hours now. After calling...please call again at 2.30p.m.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Michael Bullut <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:main@kipsang.com" target="_blank">main@kipsang.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><p>Great history lesson there for some of us... :-)</p>
<p>Sent on the run,<br>
Please excuse errors & ommissions!</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Aug 21, 2012 10:17 AM, "Odhiambo Washington" <<a href="mailto:odhiambo@gmail.com" target="_blank">odhiambo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Rebecca Wanjiku <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com" target="_blank">rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><div><span>Apparently Kenic has issued termination letters to all employees, what will the PS increase control over if the organization has no employees? Read more...</span></div>
<div><span><br></span></div><div><span><a href="http://www.wanjiku.co.ke/2012/08/kenic-ceo-fires-first-salvo-at-govt-terminates-all-employees/" target="_blank">http://www.wanjiku.co.ke/2012/08/kenic-ceo-fires-first-salvo-at-govt-terminates-all-employees/</a><br>
</span></div><div> </div><div>Tel. <a href="tel:254%20720%20318%20925" value="+254720318925" target="_blank">254 720 318 925</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wanjiku.co.ke" target="_blank">wanjiku.co.ke</a><br>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com" target="_blank">rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com</a>
<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Monday, August 20, 2012 12:34 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] Ministry seeks more seats at KENIC<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div>McTim,<div><br></div><div>On this one, you are wrong (for the first time) :)</div><div><br></div><div>Besides running primary and secondary nameservers for .KE .... Randy (via PSG) also handled all registrations for .KE (and maintained the root database for the cctld).</div>
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<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><br><div>On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Sammy Buruchara <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:buruchara@me.com" target="_blank">buruchara@me.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d">At the dawn of Internet in Kenya, we all relied on Mr. Randy Bush in Oregon USA to register .ke domains.</span></div></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>I don't think Randy ever actually registered domains for .ke (or anyone).</div><div><br></div><div>IIRC, he offered (via PSG) free Secondary name services to many ccTLD that did not have the werewithal to run secondary services for themselves.<br>
</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>In this case, McTim, you never registered any .KE domain until KENIC came into being, otherwise you'd know Randy did.<br>
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I remember with Nostalgia those templates we used to send to Randy Bush in the days, and how one would anxiously await his response - yes, because it meant money then! A successful processing of the template was a big issue - you made a small mistake and it would be rejected.<br>
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