TS loves a bit of corporate training. What can be more satisfying than targeting the boss at the paintball away day or sleeping through a morning of Tony Robbins Personal Power videos?

Reports floating around the papers recently suggested that KPMG shared a similar enthusiasm for ‘executive life coaching’, and had hired a firm called Illumine to instil a bit of ‘can-do’ attitude into the troops. TS immediately conjured up images of John Griffith-Jones running across a hot bed of coals while circles of KPMG partners chanted: ‘We can drive up profits. We can. We can.’