“Be kind but strong, empathetic but decisive, optimistic but focused… you can be your own kind of leader, one who knows when it’s time to go.” For many, these words delivered by Jacinda Ardern as she held back tears announcing her resignation, are emblematic of her five and a half years as New Zealand’s prime minister. Echoing her appeal for New Zealanders to “be strong and be kind”, at the close of a press conference announcing the country’s lockdown in 2020, it is this leadership style, with its focus on empathy, that has come to define her legacy. Her resignation...