The “Mr Nice Guys” like Prime Minister John Key - and US President Barack Obama - who have soared high on the basis of personal popularity and feel-good vibes - are now finding out the hard way that there is more to making a good political hamburger than mere sizzle.

If Key does not want to preside over a one-term Government, he must set about constructing a crucial point of difference by starting to act as his nation’s CEO instead of the prime political firefighter who repeatedly rides to the rescue to save his Government from fiascos caused by his own lax political management.

From The NZ Herald

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