Leadership is, of course, the unusual quality of being able to persuade others and bring them out in support of a course of action. Good democratic leadership ensures that such courses of action have desirable social consequences. I would like to make six brief points. Quality information is necessary . To exercise leadership and to make good decisions in whatever institution one happens to find oneself, requires access to the best information possible.
Democratic governance requires good information.
Disraeli could not have imagined how much information we have available today. The Internet provides the technological capacity for the assembly and diffusion of information with exponentially staggering rapidity. Information is not knowledge . Good decisions rely on good information, but it is not enough. We have to make sense of it, cast over it a conceptual frame and discipline it with analytical rigor.