Country stuck in leadership crisis

These leaders like the pomp and glory of status leadership.

They’re pseudo-leaders for the reason that they deflect taking leadership responsibility. They consign responsibility to their peers when tough decisions must be made. They’re most fervent at passing off leadership responsibility when tough problems fall into their work portfolio.

When in the hot seat faced with hard situations they suddenly want to play a follower role. The pseudo-leaders want to let someone else take the role of leader with all its tough challenges. Removing pseudo-leaders would bring the nation a major step closer to get out of its leadership crisis.

Public sector workers have an excuse to be lazy and inefficient since the core of the public sector, government, is full of apologetic inept procrastinators who are very efficient at being inefficient.

They always have slick excuses to try to explain away or underplay their inefficiency.

The efficiency of procrastination throughout the Public Service is obviously fed from inept state leadership. Followers do what their leaders do — they have to do what their leaders legislate them to do under the law.

State leadership provides the public sector with guidance and its behavioural work ethic is held up as the best practice model which the subordinate public sector ought to follow. And so the State’s efficiency at practising procrastination is dispersed throughout all public sector services.

“A leader must be willing to be decisive because he knows that indecision is a decision not to make a decision. It is better to make a decision that may not be the best than to not make one at all. Lead decisively” (Myles Munroe, Becoming a Leader: Everyone Can Do It).

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