Donald Trump’s election campaign played like a special edition of The Apprentice, his best-known reality television vehicle — one in which the winner gets to direct the free world rather than a handful of Trump-branded projects.
As interesting, and worrying, as the question of what a businessman with no political experience might do to the presidency is what effect Mr Trump’s success could have on business leadership.
His victory looks like a throwback to the late 1990s: the older, white, male chief executive in suit and tie, peddling platitudes from a podium. Not that he ever went away, as is obvious from a glance at US corporate boardrooms, where only one in five directors are women and fewer are from minorities.