SA Post Office gets new CEO

He's a business man, not a cadre.

Guess they have to be pretty desperate to fix this.
 
Either very brave or suicidal.

As soon as he puts in performance targets and cutting down wastage the unions will paint him into a corner.

6 months in the job will be a surprise.
 
The unions will be the problem.

Not sure that Barnes will be able to deal with them. Not sure that anyone could.

Barnes knows what needs to be done, in fact we all do.

But getting it done, that's the thing.

It will be great if he succeeds, it will be a poke in the eye to the cadres.
 
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Heard the start of the interview with him on 702 and he's planning on growing the business not shrinking it, so doubt there will be retrenchments.
 
This is a surprise, pity he has to take on a sunk ship and probably just so it can be said you see................
 
I think retrenchments (voluntary) will come to cut cost, it is part of the strategy that was approved by cabinet and formulated by the administrator
 
I guess he woke up one morning and though let's have one more huge challenge I'm bored. :D
 
biometrics said:
Heard the start of the interview with him on 702 and he's planning on growing the business not shrinking it, so doubt there will be retrenchments.
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Good chance that there are many employees that are unemployable.

I doubt that merit was a criteria with previous employment.

That said, there are a few good employees at my local Post Office.

I just wish that they could get rid of the ones that steal all my parcels.
 
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Impressive interview on 702 last night. He sounds like he has a concrete plan. Even his comment about the union was sensible. If he manages to turn SAPO around the same way Deutsche Post was turned around, it will certainly an impressive feature. Think about the footprint of SAPO offices - no other organisation (not even banks) have such large physical foot-print. There are many opportunities other than just delivering letters - the traffic-license renewal for example drew a large crowd and worked very well. Apply the same principle for banking, e-commerce (locker-type concept), insurance and other retail services.

I do think that Barnes will focus more on banking and e-commerce-enabler. Unions should not be a problem - if your company starts writing profits you can compensate and motivate your staff accordingly and strikes will be a non-issue.
 
Barnes is outspoken, critical, battle-scarred and 10 years ago had an enviable track record. His more recent ventures through JSE listed Purple Capital have been less than impressive and yet there is an underlying sense that he is one deal away from re-capturing his previous magic.
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:wtf:
 
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