Talking with a dragon

If there’s one thing I have learned from interviewing entrepreneurs and executives, it’s that business is extremely easy to depersonalise. You can have conversations around topics such as mergers, profits, losses and V-shaped recoveries without learning anything about your fellow interlocutor. And while the ‘it’s-not-personal-it’s-just-business’ veneer is maintained for professional reasons, it would be remiss to ignore that behind every business decision is a human,