He is an old hand at this as he was adept at it in boyhood when he was failing subjects at boarding school and wrote long explanations to his parents trying to cover up the facts.
Mr Gates was most to blame for this; Mr Ballmer was adept at continuing to milk the Windows cash-cow for longer than might have been expected, but he too was slow to respond to the rising threat from the moves to mobile and the cloud.
Harvey Weinstein was adept at this in the 1990s, which is why Miramax films always seemed to win big when he was at the helm.
Asked about the number of casings in relation to the number of victims struck, Christensen said: "What that tells me is: this is a person that was adept at shooting and very accurate in doing so.
It seems that Obokata was adept at playing this game.
Drasner was adept at marathon evening sessions.
(She was adept at playing plucky orphans).
Coleman was adept at many styles.
In fact, Mr. Pace was adept at discreet reworking.
He was adept at using political power for good.
