Starmer has outsourced political judgment and party management to others.
- Visiting Professor of Management Practice, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London
Members of the cabinet are said to want Streeting gone. But confident leaders keep rivals close.
Strong leaders in business are often those able to allow others in their top team to share responsibility.
What is driving our most ambitious politicians in this noisy era? And can they teach us anything about how not to behave ourselves?
Ambition comes in different forms, and can be used for good or not.
Leader Rishi Sunak is standing down and the Conservative Party has to find a new leader to begin the fightback. Who will take over?
Whether illegal or not, the gambling scandal engulfing the Tory party is only the latest example of morally indefensible behaviour.
Rishi Sunak hasn’t actually lost this election yet – but you wouldn’t know it after listening to his colleagues.
The deputy prime minister insists he just has high expectations of his staff but that is not what ‘professionalism’ really means.
Nearly 60% of Twitter users want him gone as CEO, but who should take over?
The top office is not a playground for ideological experiment.
Instead of facing Sue Gray’s findings like a leader, the prime minister again engages in deceit, deflection and denial.
In the UK, there is very little to stop a leader who doesn’t care to comply with unwritten norms.
The prime minister was slow to take this crisis seriously and delegates at every opportunity.
Charisma can only get you so far in the face of a global pandemic. Research on leadership suggests another approach is needed.
Boris Johnson fails on six scores of inspiring leadership.
The quickest and simplest solution seems to be installing a new leader – someone with nerve, daring and, of course, charisma.
Research shows that job interviews are a seriously flawed way of finding out how a potential employee might perform in the future.
For two-and-a-half years misstep has followed misstep.
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