FT Letters Column - Banking, Leadership and Elvis

Copy of letter printed in the Financial Times Monday 8th September - enjoy!

 

Sir, The Prospective Chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland Board's liking of Elvis is 'not unusual' in the words of Tom Jones.  ("Guitar gently weeps for RBS", August 28).  There is a long tradition of people in power who are musically gifted.  I have accompanied the current CEO of Kent County Council during his regular Elvis impersonations at staff conferences, perfomed the blues with an up and coming female executive at FTSE.  I was recently astonished when the CEO of a Housing Organisation managed to pen a bitter rant entitled "The Credit Crunch Blues", to be performed at their staff conference, and which manages to produce a rhyming couplet out of the words discounted cash flow! Alastair Darling will no doubt be performing "Blue Christmas" at the next Labour Conference? Peter Cook, Managing Director, The Academy of Rock, Gillingham, Kent, UK