“I was the hero of the evening,” says Ulrich Lehner, the chief executive of Henkel, a German consumer-goods giant [specializing in glue, which accounts for 44% of its sales under brands such as Pritt, Sellotape and Loctite]. When a fashion model broke a heel at a farewell party for another German boss, Mr Lehner instantly sprang to her rescue with a tube of superglue. “I always carry it with me,” he says proudly...
Sources
The Economist, Aug 11th 2007, p. 54
