As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He discovered that while in the US population 14. 5 per cent of all men are 6ft (1. 83m) or taller, among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies the proportion is 58 per cent. And while 3. 9 per cent of American adults are 6ft 2in or taller, almost a third of the CEOs were that tall.