Fredy Vargas Lama, PhD (UN/ECLAC, WEF Global Foresight Network) — reads Incorruptible as a mirror for public-sector foresight

Fredy Vargas Lama — Senior Consultant & Executive Advisor at UN/ECLAC, WEF Global Foresight Network, OECD Government Foresight, and Doctorate Director — publishes a 26-like post applying Ries's Mary Parker Follett 'invisible leader' framing and constitutional-governance argument to public institutions. His diagnosis: states lose anticipatory capacity the same way companies lose mission — not from bad leadership but because the capacity to foresee was never architected to outlive whoever built it.

“Eric Ries argues the strongest organizations aren't run by a charismatic leader but by what Mary Parker Follett called the Invisible Leader: a shared mission everyone acts on, including in the room no leader ever enters. Constitutional Governance is how that mission survives succession — written into founding documents, not into anyone's will. I recognize this problem from the other side. States lose Anticipatory Capacity the same way companies lose mission: not from bad leadership, but because the capacity to foresee was never architected to outlive whoever built it. Ries's toolkit is corporate — ownership structures, fiduciary clauses, golden shares. A ministry has no shareholder register to rewrite.” — Fredy Vargas Lama on LinkedIn