So in summary, the argument is that corporations should pay for some employees to rack up air miles and get drunk on the corporate expense scheme because... they're under the delusion that this will result in more "meaningful" deals. This must rank alongside the water cooler = creativity notion as the most intellectually inadequate explanation for failure to adapt to new possibilities. Fact is, you can't really make a deal with someone until you've hunted woolly mammoth together. So clearly we need to pour money into bringing that species back from extinction, because corporate wellbeing depends on it!