This week’s target is Dick Tyler, London managing partner at CMS Cameron McKenna.

Here we have someone who walks by himself… as far as decision making is concerned anyway. As I look at this writing the words cards, close and chest come inexorably to mind. This is a tactician par excellence, one who deliberately maintains a certain distance between himself and others in order to achieve a level of independence that is both useful and important to him. He has a way of reversing a situation to his own advantage… try asking him an unwarranted question and you will find yourself answering that self-same question.