That's not what I would do now, in my 40s, but maybe I would have made the same mistake when I was 20-something.

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"I would say to Craig not to make the same mistake I made, " said Savage.

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This is a quintessential misdiagnosis of a problem, and I submit that the same mistake would have been made by a broad cross section of big firm leaders.

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Perhaps MacLaurin has made the mistake - as I did - of assuming that croquet at the top level is the same game that some of us might have played in a posh pal's back garden.

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