Call me Tony: A parable of corporate Nigeria, By Temitope Lakisokun
Before telling every Nigerian employee to call every senior person by his or her first name, ask one very simple question: What happens when the chairman is old enough to be the intern’s grandfather?
The argument over the young trainee who addressed UBA Chairman Tony Elumelu by his first name has become a surprisingly revealing debate about Nigerian society.
The Great First-name Revolution Sometime in the corporate culture of the 1980s and 1990s, a number of Nigerian executives began importing ideas from American business schools and corporate America, most of them fresh from a three- or four-week course at Harvard or Yale, which, by a happy coincidence, was just enough time to be thoroughly convinced of everything!
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