Quotation for Today, Monday 2 March
His CEO leadership style is reassuring. His moments of glorious goofiness, dancing with transvestites and doing the occasional face plant when exiting a stage, have made him seem endearingly human in contrast with Helen Clark’s austere aloofness of the previous decade.
Helen exercised highly centralised power. She had a cabinet of one.
Key runs a much more collaborative leadership. There appears to be an inner cabinet consisting of him, Bill English, Steven Joyce, Simon Power, Gerry Brownlee, Murray McCully and Tony Ryall who drive policy and performance but, broadly, he seems to leave his ministers to do their jobs without heavy interference.
Bill Ralston, journalist and political commentator in Herald on Sunday 1 March 2009 on the marked difference in style between John Key and Helen Clark.
Bill Ralston, from Herald on Sunday
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Snap! I actually selected the same quote from Ralston (well the first two paragraphs anyway) for my Monday Quote this morning. Great minds thinking alike, no doubt!