John Roome, senior climate adviser with AIIB and former regional director at the World Bank, joins us to talk about his experience in using narrative to bring teams together. We talk about the World Bank’s overuse of the word AND, the difficulty in shifting the World Bank to a narrative culture, and the impulse in many executives to write needlessly long documents.
Show Notes
Randy's Substack on the Obama narrative metrics
John Roome’s site visit videos (archived on our old website)
A spat over language erupts at the World Bank – The somewhat dismissive Economist article on the “conjunction dysfunction” about the Literary Lab’s report.
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