It seems this crap is happening in every other company integrated in Kenya.
- First of all; a foreign company is started and successfully takes off.. Things are working OK, they get clients and are quite poised for growth.
- Then the foreign company that dint quite believe they would make it in Kenya starts to take notice. "It seems there is a lot of cash to made after all !!!!
- Then they send 'expats' to come and 'improve' the company.
- They push out the locals and the foreign incumbents into lower management positions - claiming the need for 'streamlining' and 'efficiency' which they have brought from lands far far away!
- These 'expats' increase company expenses, and consume salaries of more than 20 local people - for their 'messiah' foreign leadership they have brought from lands far far away.
- Most of them are involved in several 'luxurious' ventures in the Country instead of working and advancing the culture that the starters put forth.
- They hire boot-licking cronies that destroy the existing culture that made the company an initial local success.
- Retrenchment aka Cost-Cutting comes
- They lose their former clients.
- The 'expats' take the first plane out.
- The company is left to sink in the wake of the 'expat' and 'know-it-all' management.
Look around.. Its happening in some of these once successful foreign Tech Companies.