Country stuck in leadership crisis

Our leaders ought not to abandon their duties to serve the nation by using race talk as an OSHA violation to down tools. That form of petty 20th century leadership is obsolete in the 21st century.

Parliamentarians must upgrade their professional attitude.

I think thin-skin attitudes about race ought to automatically disqualify political hopefuls for consideration and more so nomination to contest for any public sector leadership.

The standards for public leadership must rise.

Twenty-first century leaders ought to upgrade their egos and sharpen their resolve to lead, irrespective of distraction, with pride and ethics and visionary tact.

TT is stuck in a leadership crisis because it has too many pseudo-leaders. The country is top heavy with pseudo-leaders, all scrambling for socio- economic rank, big wages and big limelight status. These leaders like the pump and glory of status leadership.

They’re pseudo- leaders for the reason that they deflect taking leadership responsibility.

They consign responsibility to their peers or subordinates when tough decisions must be made; when responsibility for failure must be borne.

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, our pseudo-leaders 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 getting out of its leadership crisis.

Every public sector worker has an excuse to be lazy and inefficient since the core of the public sector, government, consists 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.

Race wars are among their slick but destructive distractions.

The efficiency of procrastination met throughout the public sector obviously is fed from inept State leadership. Followers do what their leaders do — they have to do what their leaders legislate them to do under law even if the laws their leaders make are also inept or wholly obsolete.

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 and inefficient service delivery are dispersed throughout all public sector services.

B JOSEPH via email