FRM2011 wrote:It would be interesting to see what would happen if Airtel hired these two. Peter arina has been at safcom from the days of Michael joseph and if there is one guy who understands the secret of safcom's phenomenal growth, then its him.
Were they to join Airtel, it would be a perfect case study, to see whether staff thrive inspite of organisational culture or because of it.
Airtel, it seems to me, is like one place where you have to convince the top mgt that something can't work for it to be given a go-ahead.
They must have secured a very sweet package -and that usually comes with non-compete and non-disclosure clauses tacked on, at least for a few months. Makes it unlikely for Arina to head to Airtel;
The second thing is the Indians will not cede a single inch of control, everything is densely stuffed and stacked with bureaucratese from the Indian Airtel HQ, complete with the usual Indian nepotism and cronyism, he would be suffocated, ineffective and all he would do is merely collect a huge salary for a couple of months -
but yes, if the guy went there and got free reign Safaricom would have a lot to worry about.