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Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Associate Dean; Head of the Faculty of Management, Faculty of Management.David started his working life 400 yards from Cass in what was then Britannic House, headquarters of BP (now City Point), working on simulation and data retrieval projects. He became fascinated by the way in which political factors dominated the technical factors with which these projects purported to deal. He followed this interest with an MA in Organization Studies at Leeds, and a PhD at Bath on problem construction in teams. For the next 20 years at Bath he developed research, teaching and consulting interests on the organizational implications of problem construction, managing complex situations, cognitive mapping, mental rehearsal, management learning and finally agenda reformation. He was Editor for five years of Management Learning, one of the most highly cited of all non-American management journals.