Reflections 18th October

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What I’ve noticed.

The steady evaporation of centralised authority. It's becoming very evident as politicians bicker over which regions should lock down to what extent, "following the science" becomes clear as a marketing tagline, local leadership asserts itself in the North, and the only response is to co-opt track and trace data and threaten people with punishment.

If this was a football team, we'd be saying the coach has lost the dressing room, and we'd be looking in the market for a replacement.

Everyday the business press is full of lectures on leadership and the fact that centralised doesn’t work in times of rapid change, but somehow we seem not to think that it applies to politics. People are elected on a condensed centralised quasi promise called a manifesto, but without any clear indication of the qualities needed to operate in a complex leadership environment. A degree in the other PPE (politics, philosophy, economics) combined with an extended internship somew…