“If you don’t like the people you’re working for - leave. Find something different to do,” was UK director at Equiom Roddy Balfour’s message to the audience of eprivateclient’s ninth leadership insight seminar.

He noted that nowadays there is increasing mobility, including internationally, and people are more ambitious having worked incredibly hard to get qualified and to where they find themselves today.

Roddy described himself as “unqualified”, having failed his economics A Level and not been to university. Instead, he went straight to work in Paris, sticking adverts on to newspaper proof befo...