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Month: April 2014

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Organisations and the ghosts of failures past, present and yet to come

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 02/04/201405/06/2014

How do organisations learn? It is fairly uncontroversial to say that we, as individuals and…

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Steven Shorrock is an interdisciplinary humanistic, systems and design practitioner interested in human work from multiple perspectives.

Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) & Chartered Ergonomist and Human Factors Specialist (CErgHF)

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