Lack of Leadership Exposed!

Kia Ora,

Well the blame game has started in India over the state of the Commonwealth Games in the lead up to the Games.

A lot of fingers were pointed at one official, Indian Media have pointed the finger also at the New Zealander who was CEO of games on behalf of Commonwealth Games.

To my way of thinking both of those fingered in particular but right the way down the chain there has been a lack of leadership. As is shown in the programme 'Undercover Boss' those up the top often have no idea or have forgotten what it is like at the bottom.
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They don't always have to do the work but just get out & see those that are & ensure things are done. Though not like one security operations manager who thought he would visit sites & patrols & when having to help do some work or do something that was out of his league, never came back, but harrassed everyone else. He never learnt a thing.

Or as I found in Iraq, different nationalities have different ideas of leadership & what works. All had their good & bad points, but to motivate people some of the leaders have to get in & do some work themselves.

We had a situation where that arose & on the first day the local workers worked very hard & were great. On the second someone from a different nationality thought all they had to do was yell & scream & nothing much got done. The third day same formula as first was tried but the damage had been done.
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Funny thing is all the criticism pointed at India can also be pointed at New Zealand.

The day after the state of the games village was exposed it was revealed similar conditions where found in Auckland eateries.

Within the NZ Security Industry the lack of real leadership is rampant & would be sorely exposed in a real emergency at most big events.

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