BANTU MNIKI | SA lacks ideas-driven leaders who can turn country around

The developmental imperative is to train people to generate and test ideas, express those ideas clearly, and then execute them consistently. This is the whole objective of a national imperative for development. This is not an approach that requires genius.

In fact, all it requires is a proper appreciation of its simplicity. To learn it is simple in that it has been done before, and anyone could simply copy it and apply it in their own country. Several countries in Southeast Asia have done so, with China the current darling, shaping up to soon be the most powerful economy in the world.

What must not be missed though is that the copied fundamentals must be adopted to specific local environments. The real spoiler though is that this beautiful and simple approach requires people who are already trained to generate and test ideas, express those ideas clearly, and then execute consistently. However, there are not enough people in SA who are trained to do this.

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Instead, it seems to destroy the very natural inclination of children to be trained like this. Even our private sector industry training is producing very few of these people and many relocate to developed economies. The rarity of people who are trained like this is evident at leadership level.

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