Broad and Anderson would no doubt have arrived at the ground thinking it was a good day to bowl, given largely overcast skies and the notorious swinging conditions beside the River Trent.

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Such thinking at last shows signs of changing, and a good thing too.

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So then why are some people so good at recognizing, understanding, and even creating future trends and behavior (thinking Oprah Winfrey, Steve Jobs and Warren Buffett) and others not?

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"At the moment my thinking is to have a good season and finish well, " he said.

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"During treatment, I started thinking that I wanted to feel good at the end of the day and needed a job change, " Caggiano says.

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Take hope, my humanities-oriented friends, software is finally getting good enough to shift engineers to the back-office and unleash humanities-centric creative thinking at the front office, which will be transformative.

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