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PRESENTATION DETAILS

Title: Narrative & Leadership
Author: Dave Snowden
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Presentation to the Welsh Public Service Summer School June 2008.  Normal introduction (Complexity, children's party story + narrative, baskeball video.  Then generally on the theme of government, alternatives outcome based targets etc.  There is also a Podcast.   

I ran out of time so did not cover archetypes (emergent not Jungian) paper available here , not did I deal with simulation approaches using tolerated failure together with  the use of metaphor, method here

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