Bank of Queensland chairman Warwick Negus announced on Monday that he’d called off his global search for a new chief executive, instead preferring to make permanent the temporary stint of Patrick Allaway, Negus’ predecessor as BoQ chairman.

Just another sweet gig for Heidrick & Struggles. They’re asked – defiantly – to name anyone on earth as uncommonly gifted as Allaway. To look, but not too hard. And they get paid just as much for coming back empty-handed. Indeed, that probably got them extra.