At the end of 2004 I was working for a global advertising agency. They had just made me Managing Director of the whole group rather than leaving me to run the media company where I was extremely happy. Weighed down by an unprofitable set of globally aligned accounts, very few local clients and changing regional management, the creative side of the business was a drain on me. I had been given a dog, was the last 'man' standing and I was bitterly unhappy for the first time in