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It was an unexpectedly warm and sunny day. ‘July in London sometimes has pleasant surprises,’ reflected Julian Bird, Tate’s Chief Operating Officer. Julian, an energetic-looking man in his late thirties, stretched his long legs and looked into the distance. He had joined the Tate organization a year earlier, in July 2007. It was an exciting challenge: Tate Director46 Sir Nicholas Serota had put him in charge of running all of Tate’s operations, which meant that the day-to-day organization was now his responsibility.
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© 2011 Beatriz Muñoz-Seca and Josep Riverola
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Muñoz-Seca, B., Riverola, J. (2011). Tate: Reinventing Operations to Become a Different Type of Company. In: Muñoz-Seca, B., Riverola, J. (eds) When Business Meets Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230295117_8
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