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Daniel Thornton - BioDaniel studied PPE at Oxford and History at LSE. He’s had huge experience in central government. He worked in the Foreign Office, Parliament, the Treasury, DCLG and has been a Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. Since then he’s worked for Gavi a charity promoting vaccination low-income countries; he’s been a programme director at the leading think tank the Institute for Government and he’s currently the Director for External Relations at Ark an educational charity running dozens of schools.Ron Heifetz- Wikipedia- Book: Leadership on the lineRalph Stacey- Wikipedia- Book: Strategic Management and Organisational DynamicsOther- Jeff Bezos' book: The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon- Richard Pascale's book: Surfing the Edge of Chaos- Mark Foden's article comparing the Olympics and Unversal Credit: Government doesn't get complexity- Daniel Thornton's Ministers Reflect interview with Nick Clegg
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