Cycle of mediocrity in developing countries, why does it exists and how to overcome it. * Many organizations continue to perform in unforeseen ways, despite their own plans and efforts that tout the virtues of aspiring to excellence. Why does mediocre performance persist? Why the cycle of mediocrity prevails in public sector organizations? ...we clearly need a better understanding of the barriers to performance improvement, and, in this regard, mediocre management is a plausible factor worth examining. Indeed, this literature shows that managerial mediocrity is both widespread especially in developing countries, and associated with decreased performance. *In recent years, talking about many government failures, such as those concerning the war against terrorism, the Columbia space shuttle disaster, and environmental mismanagement (Fink, 2003; Parachini, 2003), managerial mediocrity has been named as a contributing or principal cause. Managerial mediocrity has been blame...