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Complexity and Leadership

Dave Snowden
February 5, 2008
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I gave a lecture today at Zurich University on Complexity and Leadership. I will blog on the subject later in the week, but for the moment a copy of the slides can be obtained here. For those familiar with my work there is one new set of material around how leaders should behave in a complex environment.

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