Leadership is not about being in charge; it's about taking care of those in your charge.
To utter a performative is not to make a statement, and therefore the utterance of a performative is neither true nor false.
The world is not run from where he thinks. Not from castle walls, but from countinghouses, not by the call of the bugle but by the click of the abacus, not by the grate and click of the broadsword but by the scrape of the pen.