Also from past experience, and quite a bit of it, it is the...

Also from past experience, and quite a bit of it, it is the trick of a good manager to penetrate the layers of obscurity to find out what is going on. You can't do that from your office, you need to (in my day) have a fag or more than a few drinks with the those doing the work, one at a time for preference, to find out how the company actually runs. Tweeting photographs of yourself with your expensive motorbike is not going to do that. Setting yourself up as a hero in Australia is usually a recipe for none co-operation. What's the term now? Oh yes, VVanker.

I do hope with the extraordinary pressure he should now feel, we will see the best he has to offer. I have no idea how good that may be though.

I've had to deal with more than a few over confident knobs elevated beyond positions they were competent to fill.