Leaders as learners

During the Brexit crisis that engulfed the UK and, to an extent, the European Union during 2017 and 2018, there were frequent calls for “better leadership,” for people to “stand up and be leaders” and to “show true leadership.” These rallying cries can be understood on a superficial level, in that there was self-evidently a number of problems affecting the progress of the Brexit process, and there was no one waving some kind of political magic wand to deliver what people expected.