Why make it so complex and difficult? It's actually pretty easy.

The boss loves cycling? Hey, you do too! Why don't you go cycling together. Oh it's golf? You love it! Why don't you listen to everything that's going right and wrong at the firm.

I feel a bit sorry for the author of this article, because he thinks he figured it all out, and he's still going to lose from the guy who hangs out with the boss.