Eccentricity drew their attention, but so too did 'happy mediocrity', or outright failure.

In cases of outright failure, shareholders should claw back executives' pay, and send a powerful message to future executives.

Plainly, too, the international community has to focus more tightly on preventing fragile states lurching into outright failure.

Subsequent missions greatly impact the budget (see above), and outright failure in certain missions may end the campaign altogether.

Butler's arrangements haven't dated particularly well, but the record's too innocuous and good-natured to qualify as an outright failure.