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) 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@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?

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 31^st ? 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 ......................

cheers

Muriuki Mureithi

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