Successful organisations, from businesses to governments, work best when their leaders are able to articulate a clear, long-term vision, says Paul Ormerod

Keir Starmer has been complaining that the machinery of government does not work properly. When he pulls a policy lever, very little happens.

This has provoked a public argument with the health secretary, Wes Streeting, who does not seem to have much time for this line of argument. Indeed, Streeting suggests that if the government itself cannot get things done, the electorate may well decide to choose a different one.

There is no doubt that compared to, say, 50 years ago the overall quality of the civil service has been diluted.

In the 1970s, a job in Whitehall was a coveted prize for a bright and ambitious young graduate. You might instead have become an academic or gone into the BBC.  

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