Cicero knew how to flatter the apparatchiks. How to make them feel important. How to make them feel that all her ideas were their own.
Cicero knew how to play them. How to speak their language. She all but hypnotised them. She programmed the programmers in turn. Nudged the nudgers. Out behavioural-psychologised the behavioural psychologists.
Cicero understood apparatchik logic. She understood how to work the chain of command. She knew how to do management speak. HR speak. She could paly 4D chess better than any of them.
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