First, if he does not really understand your current tasks but is trying to force-fit an old solution to them, stop him dead in his tracks and work through his discussion, point by point.

A shocking postscript is that although the film has been screened by the BBC, no cinema in neighbouring South Africa, which could stop Mr Mugabe in his tracks, has yet seen fit to air it.

So once in a while his horse would stop dead in its tracks, because you know animals can sense things people can't.