The politicians are well aware of the phenomenon of the tutelary shadow: the old ones, the “ex” ones, continue to weigh after they have left their functions.
Among the Republicans, for example - Monday's judgment will perhaps change something - career prospects and the credibility of ambitions are measured by a word lent to Nicolas Sarkozy and by the frequency of appointments made in the offices of the former President of the Republic, rue de Miromesnil in Paris.
In business, too, retirees matter.
Ask Jeff Immelt.
From 2001 to 2017, he was CEO of one of the world's largest companies, General Electric.
And during these sixteen years, he confides in his memoirs (
Hot Seat
, Simon & Schuster), the question he was asked the most was:
"How does it feel to take over
from Jack Welch
? "
Immelt, who landed in 2017 with a highly contested record, has always felt the breath of Welch on his neck, an icon among the icons of American capitalism,
"manager of the
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