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Having run nine marathons she is as determined to push her physical prowess as she is the boundaries of group IP. Paul Robertson talks to Diane Buckley about her experience in the intermediary market.

While cod psychology is generally best avoided, in terms of an interview it is often inevitable as the interviewer is expected to give some sort of impression of what the person interviewed is like. This is not always easy, as in the main you will not know them and a half hour formal interview is not the best place to make their acquaintance. Sometimes, however, you are just handed the defining anecdote on a plate. Diane Buckley can be summed up thus: a keen runner she was on the 18th mile of the New York marathon when a lady fell in front of her. She stopped and bent to check the woman ...

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