Business In a Time Of Diminishing Trust
Contracts, purchase orders, letters of intent, IOU’s and many other instruments of business are increasingly not worth the paper they are printed on, even if created by and under the direction of legal counsel. Transacting business in Kenya, whether with an individual, SME, corporate and even government can be a game of chance, where your enterprise is better off getting what it can right out of the gate as future payments are not assured or the effort to get it on the books leaves teams adversely worn if the business is not already tittering on closure, having hedged every possible credit line to stay afloat and servicing errant customers. Such is the reality for many entrepreneurs and their operations regardless of their stage, where exposure can range from the thousands to billions of shillings. http://www.mbuguanjihia.com/business/business-in-a-time-of-diminishing-trust...
Interesting read... Ali Hussein +254 0713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle Sent from my iPad
On 6 Feb 2020, at 10:16 AM, Mbugua Njihia via kictanet <[email protected]> wrote:
Contracts, purchase orders, letters of intent, IOU’s and many other instruments of business are increasingly not worth the paper they are printed on, even if created by and under the direction of legal counsel. Transacting business in Kenya, whether with an individual, SME, corporate and even government can be a game of chance, where your enterprise is better off getting what it can right out of the gate as future payments are not assured or the effort to get it on the books leaves teams adversely worn if the business is not already tittering on closure, having hedged every possible credit line to stay afloat and servicing errant customers. Such is the reality for many entrepreneurs and their operations regardless of their stage, where exposure can range from the thousands to billions of shillings. http://www.mbuguanjihia.com/business/business-in-a-time-of-diminishing-trust... _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list [email protected] https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Twitter: http://twitter.com/kictanet Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KICTANet/
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The National and County Governments are the leading culprits of "Killing" businesses. You deliver products, but it takes years for the government to honour payments. In mind I have the case of the suppliers who have been asking for payment from the Prisons Department, and they blame the person of the Principal Secretary for their predicament. The private sector learns from the government and perfects the art of dishonouring agreements. The "Utado" attitude reigns everywhere. On Thu, Feb 6, 2020, 10:25 Ali Hussein via kictanet < [email protected]> wrote:
Interesting read...
*Ali Hussein* +254 0713 601113
Twitter: @AliHKassim
Skype: abu-jomo
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle
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On 6 Feb 2020, at 10:16 AM, Mbugua Njihia via kictanet < [email protected]> wrote:
Contracts, purchase orders, letters of intent, IOU’s and many other instruments of business are increasingly not worth the paper they are printed on, even if created by and under the direction of legal counsel. Transacting business in Kenya, whether with an individual, SME, corporate and even government can be a game of chance, where your enterprise is better off getting what it can right out of the gate as future payments are not assured or the effort to get it on the books leaves teams adversely worn if the business is not already tittering on closure, having hedged every possible credit line to stay afloat and servicing errant customers. Such is the reality for many entrepreneurs and their operations regardless of their stage, where exposure can range from the thousands to billions of shillings.
http://www.mbuguanjihia.com/business/business-in-a-time-of-diminishing-trust...
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With all due respect to legit tenders winners, could it be that others 'killed other businesses' for them to win those tenders? The utter classlessness that is county/ government supply business! On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 11:38 AM Solomon Mbũrũ Kamau via kictanet < [email protected]> wrote:
The National and County Governments are the leading culprits of "Killing" businesses. You deliver products, but it takes years for the government to honour payments. In mind I have the case of the suppliers who have been asking for payment from the Prisons Department, and they blame the person of the Principal Secretary for their predicament.
The private sector learns from the government and perfects the art of dishonouring agreements.
The "Utado" attitude reigns everywhere.
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020, 10:25 Ali Hussein via kictanet < [email protected]> wrote:
Interesting read...
*Ali Hussein* +254 0713 601113
Twitter: @AliHKassim
Skype: abu-jomo
LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle
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On 6 Feb 2020, at 10:16 AM, Mbugua Njihia via kictanet < [email protected]> wrote:
Contracts, purchase orders, letters of intent, IOU’s and many other instruments of business are increasingly not worth the paper they are printed on, even if created by and under the direction of legal counsel. Transacting business in Kenya, whether with an individual, SME, corporate and even government can be a game of chance, where your enterprise is better off getting what it can right out of the gate as future payments are not assured or the effort to get it on the books leaves teams adversely worn if the business is not already tittering on closure, having hedged every possible credit line to stay afloat and servicing errant customers. Such is the reality for many entrepreneurs and their operations regardless of their stage, where exposure can range from the thousands to billions of shillings.
http://www.mbuguanjihia.com/business/business-in-a-time-of-diminishing-trust...
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Several years ago, I stopped doing business with Government directly and only do so through proxies like Well known NGOs, who purchase the mon their behalf and pay. Let's not kid each other. We cannot claim to try kill the corruption menace in Kenya while abetting it. It was painful but we had to lay off 9 salesmen who could not sell without bribing. Killing this worldwide demon starts with you and I. Regards, Alvin Ochola 0722-313-923 Greenline Technology Limited ICT Solutions [email protected] On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 12:07, K Machuhi via kictanet < [email protected]> wrote:
With all due respect to legit tenders winners, could it be that others 'killed other businesses' for them to win those tenders? The utter classlessness that is county/ government supply business!
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 11:38 AM Solomon Mbũrũ Kamau via kictanet < [email protected]> wrote:
The National and County Governments are the leading culprits of "Killing" businesses. You deliver products, but it takes years for the government to honour payments. In mind I have the case of the suppliers who have been asking for payment from the Prisons Department, and they blame the person of the Principal Secretary for their predicament.
The private sector learns from the government and perfects the art of dishonouring agreements.
The "Utado" attitude reigns everywhere.
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020, 10:25 Ali Hussein via kictanet < [email protected]> wrote:
Interesting read...
*Ali Hussein* +254 0713 601113
Twitter: @AliHKassim
Skype: abu-jomo
LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle
Sent from my iPad
On 6 Feb 2020, at 10:16 AM, Mbugua Njihia via kictanet < [email protected]> wrote:
Contracts, purchase orders, letters of intent, IOU’s and many other instruments of business are increasingly not worth the paper they are printed on, even if created by and under the direction of legal counsel. Transacting business in Kenya, whether with an individual, SME, corporate and even government can be a game of chance, where your enterprise is better off getting what it can right out of the gate as future payments are not assured or the effort to get it on the books leaves teams adversely worn if the business is not already tittering on closure, having hedged every possible credit line to stay afloat and servicing errant customers. Such is the reality for many entrepreneurs and their operations regardless of their stage, where exposure can range from the thousands to billions of shillings.
http://www.mbuguanjihia.com/business/business-in-a-time-of-diminishing-trust...
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participants (5)
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Ali Hussein -
Alvin Ochola Gmail -
K Machuhi -
Mbugua Njihia -
Solomon Mbũrũ Kamau