Johnathan Shoniwa Reflections

Whilst generally awards are positive, the proliferation of awards in Zimbabwe and internationally brings the whole merit of awards into question and dare I say into disrepute. Admittedly while it is everyone's democratic right to start their own awards, it is the credibility which is important. My personal experience is that my organisation would receive numerous letters advising us of winning some awards that we didn't even  know existed. In the interest of our own reputation we quietly turned down such funny awards, local and international. Just to illustrate how far these go is I was offered a doctorate by a dubious  international university which I politely turned down. How attractive, Dr Shoniwa!!! That's not all, we were invited to receive awards in Washington, Zurich, you name it. Our corporate executive was always alert to these funny awards which we knew we had done nothing to deserve or the criteria was plain dubious. So what is my point. My point i...

Extract from article which appeared in The Financial Gazette 23 May 2013 Human resources expert Memory Nguwi said Zimbabwe had some of the longest serving CEOs.  “We will not talk about if they are competent or not; if they are good enough they should be approached by bigger companies. History has shown that it is difficult to implement new ideas or programmes with CEOs that have been at a company for a long time,” said Nguwi. Analysts said shareholders need to take drastic actions to save their investment in view of poor performance of the entities in which they are shareholders. Some say there were companies whose results show that they were perennial underperformers but their CEOs have been at the helm for many years without shareholder dissent. “Are we copying the political culture in the country where we rarely get Ministers fired for poor performance. There are many CEOs and senior managers mostly at some parastatals who have long passed their sale by date. Ther...

"Exclusive focus on cost-cutting will erode an operation’s production ability, in the long run. Instead, companies must improve efficiencies and strengthen business processes by implementing production management systems, which will provide a holistic view of operations".