What separates a good leader from the merely adequate? The question stalks the business section of bookshops and motivates no end of teeth-grindingly-awful podcasts. In the latest addition to this canon, Tony Blair’s new book draws some lessons on leadership from his decade as prime minister of the UK. His message—at least according to a review from former chancellor George Osborne—is that great leaders focus on delivery, embrace tech, and seek respect rather than love. A great Leader—capital L—gets shit done.
Other politicians are a little more squeamish about seeing themselves as leaders. That is one finding from a paper by Steve Westlake, a research fellow at Cardiff University’s School