What Is Wrong With Us: We fly halfway around the world to admire discipline, then fly home to tolerate chaos

African executives travel too, ing world-class factories and studying advanced supply chains, then returning home to tolerate late payments to small suppliers, weak maintenance and governance shortcuts.

That is the uncomfortable question behind this reflection: most developing-world politicians and business leaders travel the world and see the best that developed nations have to offer, so what exactly is stopping them from building something similar at home?

Professor Douglas Boateng - Chartered Director UK • Chartered Engineer UK • Fellow Institute of Directors UK • Fellow Ghana Institution of Engineering Why the developing world's most travelled leaders keep returning from Singapore, London and Tokyo with photographs instead of change There is a peculiar ritual familiar across much of the developing world.