With WPP's over 200,000 employees and a $75 billion media book, Sir Martin has a uniquely privileged insight into the future of the online advertising industry.
He said: "The church doesn't and shouldn't claim ordination gives you a tremendously privileged insight into how to solve the eurozone problems".
This year (and this year only) visitors can get a similar privileged insight into the domestic set-up of the Picasso household while the artist occupied the Chateau de Vauvenargues on the north, less famous side of Mont Ste Victoire.
But despite this privileged insight, Andersen did not spot the fact that Enron was publishing incorrect financial statements.
Mr. Sandler stressed that Best Buy has no privileged insight into when Apple might introduce new iPads, beyond the seasonal product introductions most people expect from the company.
Norway recently got the ears of European countries to which it exports seafood, he said, because Norway had privileged insight into elections in Africa that those countries wanted to monitor.
Which is not easy, since even the most powerful and memorable memoirs Joan Didion's "Year of Magical Thinking," say, or Dave Eggers's "Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" pass through the banality of common experience on their way to the higher ground of privileged insight.
He sits on the board and has privileged insight into the future of the company.
