Fixing implementation

Four decades of socialist economic functioning laid greater stress on job security than job performance

With reference to “Three-page notes considered harmful” (October 16), policies, whether administrative, commercial or legal, should not only formulated but also implemented. Policy implementation calls for determination to overcome hurdles in its path. However, there is a large hierarchical system in all institutions with a clear demarcation of authority at various levels for decision-making. Failure in an aggressive approach at any level leads to disciplinary consequences for the one who takes a decision. Out of 10 aggressive strategies two may fail. However, the standard organisational notion is not that eight decisions were successful but why two have failed to fix