The chairman won't let a small thing such as possibility stand in the way of world domination
"But I don't want to wear a name badge," whined the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment group SmallBluePlanet plaintively to three tiny blonde ladies as I walked through the door of Jones of Jonestown for one of the year's big PR parties. "Put it this way, people who know me don't need to see a badge and, after so long in this business, anyone who doesn't know me I don't want to meet." Even though I've spent about a fifth of the time in this game the chairman has, I have some sympathy with this view but the diminutive bouncers were not for turning. "Now, listen here," the chai...
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