On Choosing a Chief Executive for ESCOM
Greenwell C. Matchaya A slightly modified version appeared in the Nation news paper’s Business section on Thursday 04/03/2010 I am pretty sure that for most government theorists, executive search agencies, management consultants and those of us with some advanced level of management theory it is platitudinous that the quest for any company’s CEO is probably the single most important decision that a Board of Directors has to periodically make. The decision of a CEO is very critical to the immediate and inter-temporal health and productivity of any organization. CEOs can, and do, make or break organizational fabrics and integrity conditional on their style of leadership, foresight and dynamism. It is hence so obvious that boards ought to usher themselves into robust search for the right candidates for the job while bearing in mind the larger goals of the organisation. The recent media debate on the choice of the CEO for the troubled ESCOM, partly tackled by MIE staff (referring to The N