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Policy Clarification: for your Exams: Your answer will only count if you have it in your NOTEBOOK, in verbatim field notes from interviews or transcribed form taped answers to questions. During group work on Exams, only those answers from student's notebooks will count towards their grade. The whole point of taking field notes is to do the actual field research for the SEAM analysis. The point of taking EXAMS is to prepare you for writing the report which is based on actual verbatum notes - D Boje Oct 1st, 2012.

Quetion: 1. What is an UPSURGE in a Spiral-Antenarrative? Give and example by putting in datable moments in a double spiral.

Question 2: What are the THREE parts of the Diagnostic?

Question 3: What are THREE Parts of the MIRROR EFFECT Diagnostic? Be sure to be able to do the chart.  

Question 4: The Mirror Effect is part of what stage of the cyclical improvement antenarrative?

Question 5: What are the upper-leaf dysfunctions and give examples from your consultations with your client?

Question 6: What are the Five elements of the lower leaf hidden cost and give examples from your consultations with your client?

Question 7: What are the untapped revenue stem-roots of each of Mirror Effect and give examples from your consultations with your client?

Question 8: How will your client derive UPSURGE SPIRALS from Decomposing: (A) Hypertrophied Dysfunctions, (B) Hypertrophied Hidden Costs, (C) Atrophied Structures, (D) AtrophiedBehaviors, and (E) Stem-roots that run deep into the Stem of Atrophied Economic Performance?

Question 9: Learning to Cope with Downward Atrophied Economic Performance Spirals?

Question 10: What is the role of Antenarratives in relation to Efficacies (or inefficacies) and the Downward Economic Perofrmance Spirals in the Root-Stem?

Question 11: How to use HORVERT as a way to implement Consulting Projects to re-antenarrate downward performance spirals into upward performance spirals? 

Question 12: How can the PROJECT you are planning us HORIZONTAL PROJECT FOCUS GROUPS AND VERTICAL PROJECT FOCUS GROUPS?

Question 13: What is the role of the steering committee?

Question 14: What are two types of action in HORIVERT? 

Question 15: What are the Two types of Loops that are in Antenarrative-Spirals?

Question 16: Which type of UPSURGE-Spiral Organization is your Small Business, and Draw a picture of it? This is just an example of a Prospector-Spiral?

Question: 17. MBA ONLY: What is the Observer Effect and give an example of effect your observation has had already?