Leadership clearly incapable of grasping the complexity of the office or in constant need of briefing on the most elementary issues elicits the most self-willed assertions of Foreign Service parochialism.

• 如果领导显然无力应付复杂的工作，或是连最基本的问题也需要经常听取汇报，那就会引起外交人员自作主张，大搞本位主义。