Podcasts Government Analysis Do Leaders Make a Difference?

Do Leaders Make a Difference?

Published: Nov. 7, 2011, 9 p.m.

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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\\nEditor: Innes Bowen

Contributors:

Nick Chater\\nProfessor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School

Professor Pat Thane\\nHistorian at King's College London

Chris Dillow\\nWriter on economics and psychology

Angela Knight \\nChief Executive of the British Bankers' Association

Tristram Hunt\\nHistorian and Labour MP

Jerker Denrell\\nProfessor of strategy and decision making at Oxford University's Sa\\xefd Business School

Lord Baker\\nFormer Conservative Home Secretary

Andrew Roberts\\nHistorical and biographical writer.

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