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Mon 10 Oct 2008'Mary Poppins' should be required viewing for bankers
The magical nanny believes both in empowerment and in the idea that work should be sweetened by a spoonful of sugar, writes Lucy Kellaway
WHEN I was about 10, my favourite bit from the film Mary Poppinswas when Mary reaches into her empty carpet-bag and whips out a pair of lilac high-heeled shoes. This made a lot of sense to me then, as did the way Mary, the children and the chimneysweep disappeared into the chalk pictures on the pavement.
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