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Blinded By The Light

Olly Mann presents Four Thought for BBC Radio 4, and the podcasts The Modern Mann, The Week Unwrapped and The Retrospectors

YESTERDAY I MET LIZ; a highly intelligent woman in her fifties. She’s a school friend of my mate Brett, and she’s spent the last 20 years working in brand marketing. As a result, she has a swimming pool. And a designer handbag. And a silly job title I can’t quite bring myself to recall: "Chief Inspiration Leader" or "Treasurer of Top Ideas" or something equally cringe, calculated to put the FUN in "strategy-led market research".

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