Under the counter

Ron awayAs I believe I've mentioned before, it's always handy to come to a job with more than just directly relevant professional experience. It's all well and good having all these modern MBAs and a CV longer than your arm but if I were hiring an executive I'd be looking for a bit of colour. You know the kind of thing: a chief financial officer who knows how to play a decent game of cards (which means they know how to avoid the tax man and how to convince people they're winning when they've actually just staked their wife's car on a pair of threes). Or perhaps a trader who is entirely happy with his own, how can I put this, physical dimensions as a man (their has to be one somewhere, surely). I was therefore...