The business lessons we took from Collymore, and his legacy

Bob Collymore, the former Safaricom CEO who died on July 1, 2019. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU

On December 8, 2015, Bob Collymore took a bold and unprecedented step for corporate Kenya. He made a public declaration on what he owned and had earned that year.

As the chief executive officer of Safaricom, a private sector company, he did not have to and neither was he breaking any law by not making his wealth public. Yet, he did, voluntarily.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.