Op-ed: When mining’s leaders no longer fit the moment

By Erik Groves – Mining.com

Great leadership is inseparable from context, and history shows that leaders who excel in one moment can falter in another not because they change, but because the problem they were built to solve does.

Winston Churchill is perhaps the clearest example. His leadership during Britain’s darkest hours in World War II was extraordinary. He was decisive, unflinching, and capable of mobilizing a nation under existential threat. Yet when the war ended, those same qualities proved less suited to the work of domestic reconstruction and consensus governance.