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Adaptive government? Easier said than done, Peter Shergold told April 11, 2016 By Stephen Easton Features Peter Shergold’s recent report Learning from Failure prescribes a set of administrative reforms the former mandarin calls “adaptive government” to reduce the chance of major
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