Khomeronaam,
These are the things that I am hearing from you:

You are saying that we should focus on the things that we can do something about. I think you may be correct that Nepalese have room to improve themselves as managers.

Considering our political history, I wonder if more common Nepalese had better opportunities to take responsibility and manage, they may have proven themselves better at management. Historically, our skillset for chaakadi needed to be more polished than our skillset for management. Perhaps that is why Nepalese have been better at that type of slick talking than in management.

Believe it or not, But I think that the Rana's were not bad managers. They may not have been the most humane people and they weren't after power to better the lives of the common Nepali people, but, they were not bad managers. They held onto power by being intermediaries who knew how to use the resources at their disposal. Of course they were ruthless too, but I'm trying to focus on the positive of what they were. They were Nepalese and they knew how to take what they had and to make the most of it. And they lived like Kings because they knew how to manage and utlize the power and resources that they had at their disposal.
Though we are all well-versed on the negativities of their rule, I think there is a lot of positive to learn from them as well.

I think that there is an order of things that have to followed before we will see an effective and functional Nepal. The point is that management skill can be developed. But first we need leaders with vision (like Khomeronaam) to set the stage. Once that is done, solid plans and goals are made. Then there is the communication part where the case is made and you show the importance of moving in the direction of that vision as opposed to other visions. By logically, positively and continuosly making the case to go in a certain direction a focus comes about that everyone involved can relate to. Then the problem is communicated in a solution oriented way so that most of the people feel that they can play a part in improving the situation. This is crucial. And finally when all the above is done, the more competent executors of everyone who can relate to the vision, will distinguish themselves by *acting and managing* better than the rest of us.

In many ways, the above is what the Maobadis did. I think the Maobadis were excellent managers. They had a strategic vision that they made into a concrete plan. They trained and organized themselves. They motivated. There are many things to learn from how they executed. I am not a Maoist. But I am giving them as an example of Nepalese who were good managers and who could create a plan and execute it. I may not agree with their political philosophy. But that doesn't mean that I can't admire them as executors of plans. And executing plans is what good management is. Despite major opposition at a philosophical level and at a militaristic level, they were successful.

So what I'm saying is that I don't think it is enough for us to just say that "we don't have enough managers." That may be true. But I feel that there is work that can be done at a leadership level, in terms of thinking, planning, clarifying and communicating, before the problem is presented at a management level to execute.

Khomeronaam, you are saying learn from India. But when the British left India in the 1950's, India was a mess. It took them a while to get their act togethor. It took them a while to develop the kind of confidence they have now. It took them a while for them to be proud of themselves as Indians. It took them a lot of hard work, experimenting, struggling and seeing themselves as corrupt and inefficient people before they realized their current potential.
So many ways, India had a 50 year headstart in their political history than us. Like you said, in 50 years, as a small country, we could be relatively competitive in relation with them. No?

With that in mind, I was taking your words and vision, and wanted to ask you:

If you were a leader with power in Nepal. And you were going to make a 20 year strategic plan for Nepal to take it forward, what kind of a plan would you make?

Let us try to take your vision, and put in in a SMART Goal format so that it looks like something concrete:

http://www.topachievement.com/smart.html

(I have put a few words between yours in trying to flesh out your words. I was hoping that you would put more concrete goals in SMART format. I think "develop management skills in Nepalese" should be among one of the primary goals below")

1. Focus on core competencies. Specialize. Don't compete with India and China where they are strong. Do not manufacture anything mass product in Nepal. We cannot compete with China and India on mass manufacturing. Let them produce and us buy it cheap.

2. Focus on Tourism business, trecking, hotels, ski resorts, rock climbing, mountain climbing, rafting, gliding, and other outdoorsy sports, we need a good global marketing team to promote those things. Someone who can market Nepal Tourism the same way they market Cancun, Cabos and such. Tourism industry alone will be enough to employ majority of Nepalese.

A 10 year plan to improve this would be increase both the quantity and quality of these offerings.

3. Sell the religion, sell Hinduism to 1 billion hindus on the south and sell budhism to 500 millions to the north. We can market Pashupati and Lumbini as a Mecca for Hindus and Buddhist and generate huge amout from there

A 10 year plan to improve this would be to...? Those of us living outside Nepal can help in making a global campain on this front. We can use our creativity. Just look at the thread "Awesome work, Awesome Nepal" on sajha of a firm's multimedia work highlighting Nepal's beauty and religiosity and cultural richness. If we had more people doing this type of creative skills using graphic design, multi-media and creative writing, imagine the kind of impression we could give to the world about what Nepal could do.  

4. Make it easy for Nepalese to go work outside the country such as Golf for however long it is needed. Do attempts to reduce abuse at a government level. Make easy financing to avoid poor people get into shark loans for foreign employment.

Nepalese who are already abroad can serve as resources for this.

5. Proper use of Hydro electricity. Sometimes the nonsense nationlism with our water resources is harming no one but ourselves.

6. Encourage Herbs plantation and mechanise it.

Right management Tourism and Hydroelectricity revenue alone should put us on the path to sponsor good education and mechanse foreign employemnt. As people find some economic peace, the other chaos should gradually reduce. So what do we need for all this, i think, given the size of our country all we need is 200 good and qualified managers(leaders, not just political leaders), who will work together to acomplish those goals.