"To govern is to foresee."
The famous formula of Émile de Girardin is obvious.
But are we predicting an accident?
No statesman, no scientist, no novelist had imagined that a virus would change the face of the world.
Once again, we can verify that to govern is to react.
A leader's real test by fire is less his propensity to implement a project than his ability to adapt to the unexpected, to decide in a hurry, and even to rethink his software.
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Emmanuel Macron did not foresee the coronavirus - as it was called a year ago - nor did Valéry Giscard d'Estaing foresee a second oil shock, François Mitterrand the fall of the Berlin Wall, Jacques Chirac on September 11, Nicolas Sarkozy the world financial crash or François Hollande the
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and Bataclan
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Responsiveness at such times matters more than inflexibility, and intuition more than anticipation.
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