Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, is interviewed by Jim Mellado regarding his influential leadership throughout his political career. Tony Blair talks through, what he calls, the irreducible core of leadership. This Summit session sheds light on the core convictions Tony Blair had throughout his leadership and the courage is takes to lead out of one’s core convictions.
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Tony Blair
Founder | Tony Blair Institute for Global ChangeThe Irreducible Core of Leadership
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Leading OrganizationsTony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, is interviewed by Jim Mellado regarding his influential leadership throughout his political career. Tony Blair talks through, what he calls, the irreducible core of leadership. This Summit session sheds light on the core convictions Tony Blair had throughout his leadership and the courage is takes to lead out of one’s core convictions.
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Tony Blair
FounderTony Blair Institute for Global Change
Tony Blair became the youngest British prime minister of the 20th century when he took office in 1997. He studied law at Oxford and then practiced law until 1983, when he was elected as member of Parliament from Sedgefield. Blair was a member of the Labour Party, which at the time was dominated politically by the Conservative Party of Margaret Thatcher. He became leader of the Labour Party in 1994, and three years later was named prime minister, replacing John Major, when Labour won a Parliamentary majority. Blair was re-elected in Parliamentary elections in 2001 and 2005 and continued until June of 2007.
Years at GLS 2009