It entails acting as the chief executive 's " intellectual ping-pong player " and as what he calls the company " emissary " , visiting people and places mr agon does not have time to see .
Asked about his change of tack , mr agon said : " I thought that , in difficult times , people with high salaries should contribute , " but added that 75 per cent had " clearly not " been the level he had had in mind .
Jean-paul agon , chairman and chief executive , told the financial times : " if there is such a new tax rule , it 's going to be very , very difficult to attract talent to work in france , almost impossible at a certain level , of course . "
