The expectation from the political executives that central agencies are to produce outputs and outcomes for reform has pushed these agencies to become alert and active in trying to come up with various reform ideas. These ideas, when thought of and formulated, without integrating with other ideas might become isolated island policies or might become a weird hybrid of different species of management tool. These hybrid tools require political debates and negotiation to be accepted and maintained. All new managerial tools need a lot of nurturing and protection before it can survive and live in this harsh political world, where all the other central agencies are aiming to destroy it. The managerial tools which are seen as behavior control mechanisms of other agencies by central agencies are prone to fail, especially in the midst of tough battles to lead reform. In Thailand, cases in point are the termination of: the Public Standards scheme (PSO), which was an imitation of ISO standards in the private sector; and the Seven Hurdles approach to budgeting, which was suppose to be a comprehensive performance-evaluation system but required all central agencies to be ‘friends’ and cooperate.