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No marketer will think about their job in the same way after reading this. Enjoyable and thought-provoking`   James Thompson, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Diageo, North America   `Thom Braun, The Thinking Man`s Brand Manager, has created a whole new sizzling discourse on branding which provides a terrific antidote to the anodyne filler of standard business texts. Armed with brains and a little Braun, brand managers can become brand leaders.`   Paul Walton, Chairman, The Value Engineers   `An original and witty reminder that the most successful brands are driven by talented thinkers.`   Simon Clift, President, Marketing, Unilever Home \u0026amp; Personal Care   `At last, a brand book with a big idea. Braun`s entertaining distillation of some of the greatest thinkers of the last 3,000 years offers provocative yet practical conclusions on how we should rethink managing our own brand. A wonderfully fresh and stimulating read.`   Adam Morgan, author of Eating the Big Fish   `A thoroughly stimulating and enjoyable read. By looking at brands and branding through the lens of Western philosophy, Braun helps us review afresh some of the fundamentals of marketing.`   Jim Carroll, Deputy Chairman, BBH London   In this original and imaginative slant on contemporary brand management, Thom Braun takes us into the minds of the worlds greatest Western thinkers...   Heraclitus   Socrates   Plato   Aristotle   Descartes   Spinoza   Leibniz   Locke   Hume   Rousseau   Kant   Hegel   Nietzsche   Wittgenstein   Popper   ...to reveal what they might say about branding if they were alive today.   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