Confidence slickIn times of stress it is traditional for company executives to take one for the team, demonstrating their ongoing confidence in and commitment to a stricken firm by, for instance, being seen to put in extra hours at the coalface to gee up the troops or even, in extreme circumstances, forgoing bonuses to demonstrate that they are in the thick of it with their minions. That said, I have never quite understood the latter: being forced to subsist on a six- or seven-figure salary alone for a whole year seems like nothing more than fair reward for leading...