It is my firm belief that as you get older your personality doesn't change. In fact your personality traits become more and more pronounced. Linked to this is my realisation that you also spend more and more time finding reasons or examples of things that justify your instinctive positions or beliefs, sort of "marking your own homework" or "reverse causality" if you like.
I have a tendency to be very open with people – rightly or wrongly, I rarely play my cards close to my chest. However this is not because I am some sort of goody two shoes, it is more to do with the fact that I am extremely forgetful. Lying and giving half truths requires a great deal more effort than being open – I am really no good at remembering what I told who when. Furthermore being an economist by background I am very aware of information asymmetry so I much prefer to give everyone the same data!
As such, I am glad to see that this RFP, which has been run on the basis of concealing information and only releasing data to certain people at certain times, is not going as smoothly as one might hope. Apart from feeling hopelessly tired and exasperated, I also feel happy because this experience has taught me that trying to remember at 1AM in the morning why you only told one senior executive about one change and not another change, and why another senior executive has different information, well, it’s just a bit of a mess really. 48 hours to go and counting, although my bank holiday weekend is looking in grave danger……I need to get to bed. Goodnight campers.
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