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Do Leaders Make a Difference?
Do Leaders make a Difference?
We talk much of personal leadership being the key to change in, say, politics or business. But how much can such figures really influence events? Do we overattribute power to individuals such as a prime minister or a media mogul? Have we lost sight of the overall importance of collective action and attitudes, or the trends and events that no individual can resist? Michael Blastland investigates.
Producer: Chris Bowlby
Editor: Innes Bowen
Contributors:
Nick Chater
Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School
Professor Pat Thane
Historian at King's College London
Chris Dillow
Writer on economics and psychology
Angela Knight
Chief Executive of the British Bankers' Association
Tristram Hunt
Historian and Labour MP
Jerker Denrell
Professor of strategy and decision making at Oxford University's Saïd Business School
Lord Baker
Former Conservative Home Secretary
Andrew Roberts
Historical and biographical writer.
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Do Leaders make a Difference?
We talk much of personal leadership being the key to change in, say, politics or business. But how much can such figures really influence events? Do we overattribute power to individuals such as a prime minister or a media mogul? Have we lost sight of the overall importance of collective action and attitudes, or the trends and events that no individual can resist? Michael Blastland investigates.
Producer: Chris Bowlby
Editor: Innes Bowen
Contributors:
Nick Chater
Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School
Professor Pat Thane
Historian at King's College London
Chris Dillow
Writer on economics and psychology
Angela Knight
Chief Executive of the British Bankers' Association
Tristram Hunt
Historian and Labour MP
Jerker Denrell
Professor of strategy and decision making at Oxford University's Saïd Business School
Lord Baker
Former Conservative Home Secretary
Andrew Roberts
Historical and biographical writer.
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