Leadership lessons from Brexit

Brexit has brought a number of significant social and business changes to the UK, amongst them a pressing problem in the form of the current leader vacuum.

Tory favourite Boris Johnson’s resignation, Labour’s on Jeremy Corbyn and Nigel Farage's declaration that he "wants his life back" illuminates the fragmentation within British politics at present.

In order to prevent a re-occurrence of this turbulent crisis, there are some challenges to our current concept of leadership that need to be acknowledged moving onwards.

James Brook, Joint Managing Director at Strengths Partnership, shares his insight on how we can learn from the negative events following Brexit. He said that the tactics employed by both sides of the campaign used fear-mongering to execute their aims: “Both sides of the debate engaged almost in fear-based leadership and scaremongering, reminding us constantly of all the short-term problems and issues associated with the opposing campaign’s end goal.