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CityAM

We need a government that gets business, not businessmen running government

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The idea that business leaders can transform the way government works didn’t start with Elon musk, but success in politics demands different skills to entrepreneurship, says Eliot Wilson .

Success in business and political ability rely on some of the same skills but also diverge, at best forming a Venn diagram.

To understand how difficult it is to cross from business to government successfully, you might consider the fact that only one Prime Minister and one US president have held MBAs: Rishi Sunak and George W Bush . Are they selling the idea? Eliot Wilson is a writer and strategic adviser.