9 December 2015, 8 pm
6 months, 19 days, 20 hours. How am I getting on being President? Well, apart from the leadership side of things, which we’ve already established is little more than a fairy tale, and apart from nobody taking me seriously not even the President of ITMA, I think perhaps I am getting away with it. Over the last few months I have realised two things: (1) I am quite good at bluffing; and (2) so are a lot of other people. These two facts together have boosted my confidence no end. I now know that few people are as good as they appear to be but they will expect you to pretend they are and to pretend that you are too. And that way, everyone can be happy. I think perhaps there is a fifth way of defining leadership. It is by the ratio of the amount you bluff to the amount people can tell you’re bluffing. If this ratio is greater than 1, you are a leader. If it is greater than 2, you are a hero. If greater than 5, you are a superpower; greater than 10, a deity. And the closer to the upper echelons you get, the less likely you are to be revealed as a fraud by anyone else, because, frankly, we are all in it together. This is what I have learned through accidentally becoming the CIPA Pee, and it is a sobering thought. I pour another gin and tonic to un-sober it.
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