Jacinda Ardern: A role model for empathetic crisis leadership

摘要

In the modern world of personality politics, there are few opportunities to take genuineleadership lessons from politicians. For one thing, they live in a 24-7 popularity contest,which CEOs thankfully don’t.A crisis like coronavirus perhaps presents an exception. Donald Trump has been true toform in presenting a bad example, initially downplaying the virus and now trying to turn itinto a points-scoring blame game. Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro is arguably evenworse, downplaying COVID-19 as ‘the sniffles’ and leaving social isolation to attendsupermarkets and hug fans at rallies.