MARC RAVALOMANANA

This quotation could be used by any leader, private or public, in almost any couWentry of the world to improve administration and leadership. It is the follow through for the top management that counts. Typically, even in the best of democracies, if anything goes wrong, the local managers and leaders are not only blamed for it and are held accountable if it was their mistake. but, even in America, executives blame the lower level bureaucrats even when it was caused by a mistake at the top. Congress is notorious for blaming appointees and bureaucrats if they every make a mistake, but castigating them in the most impolite and callous way. Often, it is for doing exactly what Congress officially and unofficially insisted that they do. Most management experts agree that government bureaucracies are too risk averse, but there are few rewards for bureaucratic success—that is taken by the President or the Cabinet or other heads of agencies, and much adverse if a mistake is ever made.

Most of the village chiefs were illiterate but had the respect of the people in their villages. There was a terrible example of bureaucracy in pre independence Madagascar. It was a French Colony, and the French Bureaucrats are renown, even into the 21st Century, for their lack of leadership, energy and effort.

This quotation could be used by any leader, private or public, in almost any couWentry of the world to improve administration and leadership. It is the follow through for the top management that counts. Typically, even in the best of democracies, if anything goes wrong, the local managers and leaders are not only blamed for it and are held accountable if it was their mistake. but, even in America, executives blame the lower level bureaucrats even when it was caused by a mistake at the top. Congress is notorious for blaming appointees and bureaucrats if they every make a mistake, but castigating them in the most impolite and callous way. Often, it is for doing exactly what Congress officially and unofficially insisted that they do. Most management experts agree that government bureaucracies are too risk averse, but there are few rewards for bureaucratic success—that is taken by the President or the Cabinet or other heads of agencies, and much adverse if a mistake is ever made.

Most of the village chiefs were illiterate but had the respect of the people in their villages. There was a terrible example of bureaucracy in pre independence Madagascar. It was a French Colony, and the French Bureaucrats are renown, even into the 21st Century, for their lack of leadership, energy and effort.