Targeting a place on the board

The chairman outlines his new investment process and wonders why his managers are putting on weight

As I picked myself off the floor it seemed only reasonable to ask the chairman of the insignificantly sized investment company SmallBlue Planet why he had felt it necessary to knock me down there in the first place. It certainly wasn't what I'd been expecting when I accepted his offer of a tour of the office to witness the group's new investment management process in action. "Sorry about that, old boy," the chairman apologised, before I could say anything. "It's just that you were about to become rather painfully acquainted with that new investment process I mentioned." I was going to ask ...