Everybody agrees the competent should be promoted. And his bone of bones and flesh of flesh are not so incompetent, and they are much easier than others to get promoted.

Adams left banking when his then-boss "told me the company already had too many generic white guys in senior management, and promoting me would only make things worse."

That bit of history stuck like a character trait: all his life he seemed to miss the crucial promotion, the next step up a detective's career.

He hopes I' ll assign him nice jobs and eventually promote him.

The market knew he was an investor yet he wouldn' t promote us within his own company.