As it lives up to its name, its practitioners have had to start thinking of their tools and targets as real, distinct molecules.
The result has been that over the last three years markets have been forced to focus not so much on the normal driving forces of markets, the economy and earnings, but on what the Fed is worried about, what its members are thinking, what tools it is discussing that it could bring into play if needed, and what might trigger potential market-moving action.
After attending that online chat, I came away thinking that the money tools have largely been a huge disappointment.
But it's our hope that this list will get you thinking about the way tools make our world, and they way using them has made us who we are.
How can we be expected to create properly, the thinking goes, without the tools of past success?
We know we are facing a transition, and we must take this opportunity to provide today's students with the tools and the thinking that is required for the future.
Meanwhile, intellectual figures like Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Bishop Richard Chartres of London both influenced by eastern Orthodox theology have provided new tools for Christian thinking about the planet.
In modern times, we mistakenly use the the word in a very limited sense to refer to electronic, digital, or mechanical tools because our thinking about technology is not very innovative.
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To support this kind of thinking, we have developed great analytic tools (statistics, probability, computer simulations, etc.).
Creating a solid financial plan requires good logical thinking and a clear grasp of core financial tools and assumptions.
Students will learn how to focus on critical thinking skills and how to best leverage informational tools like Watson in helping them learn how to diagnose and treat patients.
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We must start thinking systematically about how everyone can benefit from the new tools of the information revolution.
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The bank, he said, was "looking at various instruments, various tools" beyond interest lower rates and "thinking 360 degrees" on new tactics.
CIOs lose sleep at night thinking about the challenge of providing the latest and greatest information tools to the business while fitting those tools into IT budgets.
From thinking that I was one of them who had the proper tools to make it, I was boxed out and, you know, told that I actually don't have what it takes.
Both grant makers and investors have to learn new tricks and use new tools for connected, hybrid strategies (see this HBR thinking on combining giving and investing).
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In our own case, we have created a simple process that incorporates 4 key questions and 10 design tools to get MBAs and practicing managers comfortable with design thinking.
What wows? our third question, introduces the experimental dimension using tools like assumption testing and prototyping, core elements of design thinking.
On the other hand, regulators had tools in place already to deal with these problems and they ignored them thinking the housing market juggernaut would only go up.
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The shift is clearly away from memorization and towards critical thinking where medical training programs will help student to use powerful discovery and language analysis tools like Watson to help them evaluate medical case scenarios and find evidence to help them carefully rationalize decisions.
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He further emphasized that globalization certainly provides many tools but we should not forget to focus on the contents of these tools and the teaching of the humanities is central in this respect in order to help develop critical thinking amongst youth.
Like the Neanderthals, the newcomers had been busy, too, developing advanced tools and weapons, better navigational skills, trade, complex language, art and other forms of symbolic thinking.
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