Best Companies for Leaders -- are are the lessons for leadership in government?

Hay Group just announced the rankings for the global top 20 companies for leadership.  The link for the key findings is http://www.haygroup.com/BestCompaniesForLeadership/research-and-fin....  Several of the key findings, include, but are not limited to:

• 90% of the best companies expect employees to lead, regardless if they have a formal position of author
• All of the best companies manage a pool of successor for mission-critical roles
• The Best Companies for Leadership give all employees the opportunity to develop and practice the capabilities needed to lead
• 100% of the Best Companies encourage local leaders to participate in decisions made at headquarters in order to share best ideas and best practices.

Although these key findings, among others found on the website, are from commercial entities, which of these are applicable to leadership in the government, and what are your thoughts as to how we can best apply these lessons in the various agencies?