Last week, some of the world’s most important people headed to Davos in Switzerland for intensive high-level debate and supercharged networking. I went to a presentation near Smithfield meat-market in London.

Those of us who made it to Haberdashers’ Hall, London EC1, last Tuesday were reminded of one of the classic leadership dilemmas that should have been – but wasn’t – on the Davos agenda. The view from the Swiss mountain tops may be splendid but down on the ground managers are wrestling with other, less glamorous but ultimately more significant matters.