Wednesday, December 22, 2010

It's Christmas

Well apparently its Christmas and that means that we all traipse about for lunch and drinks and dinner - and say nice things to the people we hate.

Or that is the business plan - but I find as I age that I have less and less interest in doing it.

Take today for example - I am dining with a billionaire, two or three captains of industry, a couple of bankers and half a dozen wannabes.

They all hate each other. But the wannabe's disguise it well - because if they play their cards right they will be at the big table again next year - and they wouldn't want to jeopardise that Virginia ;-)

Everyone here wants to be somewhere else - doing other things - with different people.

But of course the corporate world has its mores and everyone complies - or at least they comply if they want to be in the game with prospects for success next year.

And being in the game means understanding that what drives the corporate world is dumb blind loyalty - the ability to follow along in the footsteps of some completely dysfunctional and belligerent dimwit - as though it was the most natural thing in the world. It takes a special knack.

And then being able to efficiently hoover up the crumbs that his majesty sweeps aside from time to time.

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