{"id":590,"date":"2012-03-08T12:14:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T17:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?p=590"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:18","slug":"the-leadership-secrets-of-stephen-harper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/2012\/the-leadership-secrets-of-stephen-harper\/","title":{"rendered":"The leadership secrets of Stephen Harper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        The leadership secrets of Stephen Harper\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Three former senior aides to&nbsp;Stephen Harper spoke to Professor Stephen&nbsp;Azzi&#8217;s course,&nbsp;POLM 5905 (Prime Ministerial Leadership), on the prime minister&#8217;s approach to leadership. From left to right: Dr. William Stairs, who&nbsp;was the prime minister&#8217;s director of communications and is now&nbsp;CEO of Delta Media; Jim Armour, who was director of&nbsp;communications when Harper was leader of the opposition and is now vice president (public affairs) of Summa Strategies;&nbsp;and Dr. Paul Wilson, who served as&nbsp;director of policy for the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office and&nbsp;is now a member of the core faculty of&nbsp;the Clayton&nbsp;Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three former senior aides to&nbsp;Stephen Harper spoke to Professor Stephen&nbsp;Azzi&#8217;s course,&nbsp;POLM 5905 (Prime Ministerial Leadership), on the prime minister&#8217;s approach to leadership. From left to right: Dr. William Stairs, who&nbsp;was the prime minister&#8217;s director of communications and is now&nbsp;CEO of Delta Media; Jim Armour, who was director of&nbsp;communications when Harper was leader of the opposition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}