This is not an article. This is (literary) the answer I gave in an interview with the well-known European Channel R.T.L a week ago. The following text represents what I improvised in answering a question about the quality of political leaderships in the world today. – Tarek Heggy
Our world can not be adequately and efficiently managed by writers,
journalists, professors and well-educated civil servants ...
but by leaders who are VISIONARY + COMPETENT.
I do not say that because I am short of academic degrees or
cultural/intellectual knowledge base. On the contrary, I have a dozen
of post-graduate degrees and read approximately 30,000 books in all
social sciences and humanities domains more than most of the
professors of our world. Yet, I know that what most of the countries
(including a super-power such as USA) miss is THE AVAILABILITY OF TOP
LEVEL OF COMPETENT LEADERSHIP IN EVERY SINGLE DOMAIN OF ITS EXECUTIVE
BODY.
To tell the reader the truth, I never found the level of competence I
mean except in the major corporates i.e. organizations such as EXXON,
SHELL, GM, TOYOTA, BP, IBM, ELF ...etc. When I started (in 1996)
dealing with the most senior people of the governments/administrations in many countries, I was astonished of the low level of what we call in management CEP (current estimated potential)... That is why, most 0f the excellent graduates with above 150 IQ in the top 20 countries (from per capita GDP stand-point) go to corporates.