People who have plenty of money have been the most involved with managing their wealth — and talking to their coterie of advisers — while those with far less money and much more to lose from a bad investment decision have been less involved.
And now, 10 years on, management consultants are wandering Fairfax's corridors still snickering about "managing a declining industry," and talking about further layoffs in newsrooms which have now dwindled to half the size they were.
The 28-year-old Doncaster fighter added: "It's still very raw and I don't know how I'm managing to sit and talk to people, because if you'd said this to me a year ago, that I'd be telling this story, I'd probably have just been a state.
Maybe in the not so distant future, some of the risks will be easier to manage — and easier to talk about.
"I managed to meet and talk with Kris and also talked to his agent.
Santos Uy arrived in Paris with no reservations and no plans and managed to talk his way into booked-up bistros.
Chris Martin is the managing director of Talking Talent, overseeing coaching programmes to tackle the retention and progression of working parents.
I grew up in quite a rough neighbourhood and used to pride myself on managing to talk, run or fight my way out of most situations.
I grew up in a rough neighborhood and used to pride myself on managing to talk, run or fight my way out of most situations.
"This controversy [over troop numbers] didn't survive your first contact with Iraqi reality," writes the intrepid Mr Packer, who covered thousands of miles of Iraq in his trips in and out of the country and managed to talk to hundreds of Iraqis from all walks of life.Much of this is old hat, previously described by Mr Packer in the New Yorker and by others elsewhere.
