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Well first you'll have to be smart. Part you just gotta be born with, the rest will constitute experience.
Then you have to accrue power, so you have something to give people that makes them want to come to you for help. I don't just mean muscle (although knowing some muscle is good), I mean connections, favors, inside intel, all sorts of things. And whenever you do a favor for someone, let them know; "One day, I'm going to ask you for something, and you better come through," because that's how you get favors done; you do a favor for a guy, he becomes mayor, now you have power you can exercise for someone else.
I guess the heart of it is that you have to be a well-connected people person with a level head and a certain measure of ruthlessness. You'll also probably have to be a businessman of some kind to give you a steady income stream so you can hire when favors run out. |