So how do you respond in a way that doesn't just play into the attempts to be provocative?
Inspiration: You should find a CSR consultant who inspires you to be provocative in a positive and appropriate way.
Maybe the lesson for business and marketers is that sometimes you need to be provocative to rally the troops.
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It's like, "Be conservative, don't take risk, don't be provocative, don't be controversial, ", as there is an innate fear of getting anything wrong.
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You can be provocative in a wildcat electric Fisker Karma or stay silky and classy in in the Porsche 911 or you can go for carbon fiber cool in an Audi S7.
The publication's editor-in-chief and cartoonist Charb said they were not trying to be especially provocative.
She says she understood that might be a provocative decision.
It's been 75 years since federal agents gunned down John Dillinger outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago, but the bank robber continues to be a provocative figure in American history.
Two others, Martin Wolf, the Financial Times' chief economics rottweiler, and Clare Spottiswoode, a former utility regulator, are said to be more provocative but not yet obviously wedded to any position.
Through editorials and opinionated columns, Dog News can be "pretty provocative" when it takes stands on canine regulations and AKC politics, Stander said.
W. Andrews, one of the Ford investigators (they were later to be given the less provocative title of "advisors"), told his story.
Diplomats and observers in other countries had considered such an explosion likely as Pyongyang appeared to be repeating a pattern of provocative actions seen before the previous explosions.
You want to be seen as someone who has provocative and innovative ideas.
To be clear, inviting controversial and provocative comments with which one may disagree is entirely appropriate at an education conference.
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Yet the book is so wide-ranging and provocative that these faults can be forgiven.
If the professor had stepped on the word Jesus on his own, it could be argued that it was simply a provocative pedagogical technique.
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However, if either action is performed in a deliberately provocative way, the results could be tragic.
The next-generation Toyota Corolla promises to be much more stylish and alluring, based on the provocative Furia concept car that Toyota Motor is showing.
How, precisely, would the Tories rectify the fiscal position, as they frequently but vaguely pledge to? (Mr Osborne was at it again this week, making a provocative but sketchy speech on the savings to be made through public-service reform.) How would it feel, after a gap of 13 years, to have a Conservative government?
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We want to be confronted with things that are original, surprising, difficult, and provocative.
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The comments, and because access is controlled the Tabb Forum commenters tend to be well-informed professionals, take both sides on the debate and are provocative reading.
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Yet the most provocative aspect of his vision, that avant-garde art could be a truly popular and collective experience, may be more distant than ever in the fragmentary multi-channel long-tail present.
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Although the commission points to worries over the hotly contested matter of media freedom and implies that the erection of a statue of Alexander the Great in Skopje was a provocative gesture, it recommends for the third time that the country be given a date to start accession talks.
In a provocative list of debating topics, Professor Caplan asks his students whether the economy would be more efficient if education were taxed.
The Vertu Ti raises a provocative question relevant to the estimated one billion smartphone users in the world: Should our smartphones be less of a disposable consumable something that will soon become obsolete and thoughtlessly replaced and more of a durable good, an investment that transcends minor gadget trends?
Let us hope it will also be a force for peace and harmony in a world that is clearly headed for a new, vigorous and provocative pluralism of values, cultures and civilizations.
The idea of rights for whales is certainly a provocative one, and is reminiscent of the Australian philosopher Peter Singer's proposal that human rights be extended to the great apes chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orang-utans.
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