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In this edition of the bottom line, three top executives talk about everything from selling expertise and reputations to God.

Hello and welcome to the programme.

We're not talking to financial advisors, car mechanics, estate agents or lawyers today, but we will talk about them.

They, like so many people

in a modern economy sell specialist knowledge, but these are professions we often hear grumbles about.

So on our agenda today is the curious business of expert advice. And also, is there a place

for religion at work? But before any of that, let's first meet our guests.

And first up is Heather McGregor, who's managing director of the headhunters Taylor Bennett.

Not to mention, we should say, Heather, you're also author of the Financial Times' popular Mrs. Moneypenny column.

But let's talk about the business.

Yeah, so we are an executive search firm, a headhunter, the average person, and what we do is put people into jobs that people

don't want to advertise. And we are very low volume. We fill up less than 100 jobs a year. We

employ about 25 people and not a stone's throw from here. A hundred people a year, 25 staff,

that's like each member of staff helps recruit four people.

Yeah, it's a very lengthy process.

We are somewhere between a management consultancy and a private detective agency.

But your niche is the so-called investor relations business.

Our niche is communications people.

So we work for everybody from the Moe-Ibrahim Organization,

through to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,

through to all sorts of public companies,

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