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What is going on here?

‘What is going on here?’ This is the question at the heart of Kay and King’s Radical Uncertainty – a question the authors suggest we should all be asking much more often. In this large and wide-ranging book, John Kay (economist and founding Dean of Oxford University’s Said Business...

Ode to Odense

Five years ago almost to the day, I made my first visit to Denmark.  At a conference on public service design hosted by MindLab, I was struck when Jorgen Clausen, the chief executive of Odense (Denmark’s third largest city) began his presentation talking about the city’s 1,000 leaders and...