The last of those claims is probably still true, though major strides are being made by India, China and other nations, including long-complacent Europe.
This incident highlights that most companies have long been complacent about succession planning.
"Belgians were for a long time complacent and smug towards the wartime generation," she said.
"KPMG's long and complacent tenure auditing Carillion was not an isolated failure," says the report.
Britain has for too long been complacent about its unwritten constitution, its centralised government and the fact that both sit ill with the commonsense idea that Britain is not one nation but a union of four.
All this might seem trivial, but it underlines a valid and serious serious point, and here it is: the BBC long ago became complacent in its football coverage, and was only shaken out of it by the fresher, more innovative approach of Sky.
The school had earlier been praised in the Commons by Mr Gove who said that "parents at last have a challenger school, helping to raise standards in an area where, frankly, working-class children have been let down for far too long by a complacent Labour party".
Her conditioning was called into question after Holm because Rousey may have been relying on finishing fights quickly for a long time, becoming complacent that she could strike hard after sweeping her opponents, but what about being on the receiving end of powerful strikes?
Turn your back for too long, though, get complacent, and the fire dies.
This despite reviews from our own Peter Bradshaw, who didn't hold back when he described it as: "exasperatingly awful and transcendentally disappointing... a colossal, complacent, long-winded dud".
