The leadership crisis: comms lessons from Malcolm Turnbull
As Scott Morrison settles into his new role, much can be learned about how not to manage a crisis from his predecessor, argues Peter Wilkinson.
In both crisis management and change management, flip-flopping on a strategy is a no-no.
The Turnbull’s failure to unite his party has been a central theme of his leadership from the start. History will not remember this period of Australian politics well.
We can learn a lot about leadership and reputation management from studying politicians, because the decision-making is visible. Proof-in-point is looking back at Turnbull and the NEG – a classic case of change management failure, which requires a clear direction for others to follow.
Nobody knew what the NEG was about, but the picture is now clearer: it’s all about lower power prices.
Forgot emissions and the environment. Forgetting Paris is next. When will these sad lemmings wake up? Probably after the next election.
The alternate view is that the coalition was doing fairly well and the rump joined with the ambition faction to blow up the train. Abbott isn’t retiring so this will go on.
Spin us only useful when you have cohesion. The coalition has little.
Turnbull’s only serious flaw was that he had too little experience of his win party. Morrison might do better on that score but at the expense of policy.
Interesting to see how confused the news ltd papers are since their campaign failed.
An outstanding column by Chris Mitchell today, highlighting his total hypocrisy.
Did they fail!? Their is a conservative Christian now at the helm of the LNP who recently brought a lump of coal into parliament. Perhaps Dutton was a red herring…?