The chairman ponders whether fit employees boost business while exercising his elbow at the bar
"Are you, or have you ever been, much of a sportsman," I asked the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as we enjoyed a few pints of Knighty Knight at The Peculiar Rise & Fall. "I presume by 'sportsman' you don't mean in a play by the rules, jolly good show and very much not Terry-Thomas sort of a way," he replied. "I wouldn't dream of wasting your time with such an absurd conversational gambit," I assured him. "No, I mean in the way that - as seems to happen quite a lot in Her Majesty's financial services industry - you think you know someone and then ...
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