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Chicken run – GCs notes from the middle of a crisis

Chicken run – GCs notes from the middle of a crisis
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11 February 2020
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In an exclusive extract from her new book You Didn’t Mention The Piranhas, Sarah Nelson Smith writes candidly about how it feels to be in the middle of a PR crisis:

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