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. 

It's never the staff that's at fault, typically the leadership. I'll give a few examples:

[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.

[2] Kenya Airways - Rose to be one of the most profitable companies in EA with basically the same employees. Leadership changed... 

[3] Safaricom - It was initially a department in Telkom Kenya. Leadership. 

[4] For the overused example - Apple & Steve Jobs. The nearly bankrupt organization never laid off all it's employees, merely changed the structure. 

[5] Uchumi - Purely a leadership issue, as was demonstrated very well by Jonathan Ciano. 


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... 

If this is not the case then firing the employee effectively makes the organization 'toxic'. How? 
Such moves, in my opinion do more harm than good to organizational culture. 

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> wrote:
Sammy, The BOD at KeNIC and listers at large

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:-

"...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.

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?

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? 

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.

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...

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.

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.

Ali Hussein




On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Musya Michael <michael.musya@gmail.com> wrote:
Already feeling the impact. MPESA transaction yet to reflect...3 hours now. After calling...please call again at 2.30p.m.

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Michael Bullut <main@kipsang.com> wrote:

Great history lesson there for some of us... :-)

Sent on the run,
Please excuse errors & ommissions!

On Aug 21, 2012 10:17 AM, "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:


On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Rebecca Wanjiku <rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com> wrote:
Apparently Kenic has issued termination letters to all employees, what will the PS increase control over if the organization has no employees? Read more...

 

From: Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com>
To: rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Ministry seeks more seats at KENIC

McTim,

On this one, you are wrong (for the first time) :)

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).

Best regards,

Brian



On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM, McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com> wrote:


On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Sammy Buruchara <buruchara@me.com> wrote:
Dear Listers,
 


<snip>

 
At the dawn of Internet in Kenya, we all relied on Mr. Randy Bush in Oregon USA to register .ke domains.


I don't think Randy ever actually registered domains for .ke (or anyone).

IIRC, he offered (via PSG) free Secondary name services to many ccTLD that did not have the werewithal to run secondary services for themselves.

In this case, McTim, you never registered any .KE domain until KENIC came into being, otherwise you'd know Randy did.

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.


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