In his 1977 book The Age of Uncertainty, the American economist John Kenneth Galbraith depicted the great leaders of history as carrying a single characteristic in common. ‘It was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time’, he wrote, ‘This and not much else is the essence of leadership.’
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