It's lonely at the top? If some of the executive surveys are to be trusted it seems that the further you rise in an organisation, the less likely you are to support your direct reports, inspire your teams or spend time with your people. You're even less likely to be a woman.

The Corporate Executive Board survey last year labelled Australian chief executives as suffering from tunnel vision because they know how to lovingly tend their home patches while letting the outliers freeze in Siberia.