‘You Can’t Always Just React’: Former UK PM Theresa May on Challenges for Leaders Today
In a candid interview, Theresa May reflected on some of her hardest leadership lessons.
Former UK prime minister Theresa May on Oct. 3, 2023.
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In this special edition of Bloomberg’s Management & Work newsletter, former UK Prime Minister Theresa May reflects on the challenges she’s faced in her long career and homes in on something today’s politicians and business leaders have in common: the need for speed.
Hi, everyone. I'm Francine Lacqua. As 2025 draws to a close (it’s been a long one!!!), one of the few certainties is that the world is even more uncertain. And that means everything leaders do has to be faster now. Processing information, making decisions, responding to crises — it all needs to speed up to match the pace of change.