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Here is the issue with Sir Keir Starmer. The point of a good leader is the deconstruction of the myth of the agentive forceful leader, able to actively carry forward into fulfillment all requisite tasks to meet group needs. Indeed, without this, leaders become ‘the focal point of group projections, idealized as saviors (sic.) or blamed as scapegoats’.

January 13, 2026

Wilfred Bion reading Plato, what a combination! Summarising the ideas of Wilfred Bion on group psycho-social dynamics, in his November 2024 Linked-In paper on ‘Understanding Group Dynamics Through the Lens of Wilfred Bion: A Guide for Leaders’, Rafael Chiuzi, an organisational psychologist, says that, according to Bion: …. leaders often become the focal point of … More Here is the issue with Sir Keir Starmer. The point of a good leader is the deconstruction of the myth of the agentive forceful leader, able to actively carry forward into fulfillment all requisite tasks to meet group needs. Indeed, without this, leaders become ‘the focal point of group projections, idealized as saviors (sic.) or blamed as scapegoats’.

Leadership must be the object of reflection, I think, not just based on the assumption that leaders are needed.

January 28, 2024

The study of leadership rather than an obsession with it is a vital task. It is the latter which produces what we too often call ‘leaders’ in contemporary life, who are, in brief, people who abuse relative power over others in order to assert a line of action whose success they alone are allowed to … More Leadership must be the object of reflection, I think, not just based on the assumption that leaders are needed.