Relationship Leverage1 book · 2 highlights
Controlled Accessibility as Status Architecture
Books Teaching This Pattern
Evidence
Napoleon
Andrew Roberts · 2 highlights
“This was deliberate; even at twenty-seven Napoleon was beginning to use his aides-de-camp, secretaries and domestic staff to regulate his accessibility and enhance his status.”
“Placing oneself in the limelight while seeming modestly to edge away from it is one of the most skilful of all political moves, and Napoleon had mastered it perfectly.”
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