'Boring' promise is hard to deliver for 'shell shocked' Rio boss Jean-Sebastien Jacques

By Colin Kruger
Updated November 18 2016 - 9:13am, first published 8:51am
Jean-Sebastien Jacques: Boring no more. Photo: Philip Gostelow
Jean-Sebastien Jacques: Boring no more. Photo: Philip Gostelow
E-mails show that Rio's former chief executive Tom Albanese knew of the controversial payment. Photo: Glenn Hunt
E-mails show that Rio's former chief executive Tom Albanese knew of the controversial payment. Photo: Glenn Hunt
Cudeco's former executive chairman Wayne McCrae. Photo: Glenn Hunt
Cudeco's former executive chairman Wayne McCrae. Photo: Glenn Hunt

"Do we look like boring people? I think we do," said Rio Tinto boss Jean-Sebastien Jacques in reply to an analyst who pointed out how his predecessor Sam Walsh took great pride in making the mining giant boring.

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