Marc Ravalomanana Quotes
If everyone is motivated, we will succeed. If people are aware of their responsibilities, we will succeed. If people are committed, we will succeed. Don’t wait for things to happen. Make things happen! It is OK to take risks, Sometimes you will make mistakes. Learn from your mistakes, and you will succeed.
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.
Marc Ravalomanana, President of Madagascar, Speech to the mayors of the country, May 12, 2008
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Marc Ravalomanana GCSK (Malagasy: [raˌvaluˈmananə̥]) is a Malagasy politician who was the President of Madagascar from 2002 to 2009. Born into a farming Merina family in Imerinkasinina, near the capital city of Antananarivo, Ravalomanana first rose to prominence as the founder and CEO of the vast dairy conglomerate TIKO, later launching successful wholesaler MAGRO and several additional companies.