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Parochial leadership posture

Name(s):

Narrow-visioned leadership

Parochial images of society by leaders

Leadership dependent on local biases

Nature

Government leaders have very reduced understanding of what society is and how it works. Despite the present interrelatedness of society, leaders still do not see themselves as globally responsible, but rather persist in functioning from limited and parochial images. Decision-making thus based on short-range and short-term results increases global tension.

Broader

Unrepresentative leaders

Mediocrity of government leaders

Reinforced parochialism of internal values and images

Aggravates

Refusal to market new drugs

Lack of leadership initiative ^{[in 18 loops]}

Limited decision-making context ^{[in 7 loops]}

Unformed pattern of cooperative action ^{[in 8 loops]}

Extreme detachment from represented constituency ^{[in 2 loops]}

Paralyzing patterns between villages and administrative structures ^{[in 13 loops]}

Domination of government policy-making by short-term considerations ^{[in 3 loops]}

Aggravated by

Subjectivity

Passive leadership

Unprepared leadership

Myopic advice to leadership

Global complexity as a hindrance to leadership

Unconvincing alternatives to existing societies

Self-satisfied style of informal leadership advisers

Abdication of responsibility on achieving political office

Strategy(ies)

Expanding leadership

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

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