So when Simon Freakley, CEO of restructuring specialists Kroll, says: '...not being frightened by financial information helped me. Without a CA qualification, people think they can bullshit you with financial information. But they can’t if you have a grounding in it,' I'm impressed.
It's not so much the view of his qualification and training that grabs my attention, it's the use of the word 'bullshit'.
Without being gratuitous, using words like that in front of a journalist speaks, I think, volumes about his confidence in his ability and the approach he brings to his work. It's frank and it's direct. It means: 'I can tell it like it is, and what's more I don't need to make it palatable for oversensitive shareholders.'
You don't often hear that kind of talk from people at the top. Mostly, they sound like the products of a business finishing school where the media component is run by the same people who school Premier League footballers in empty headed post-match quotes.
I like it, it's refreshing. Let's hear more of it.