One basic problem here: our collective thinking on these issues is stuck in the past.

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Slow adapters reluctant to embrace the power of collective thinking will quickly be left behind, probably trapped somewhere in their information silo.

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He is locking horns with the industry and telling it to put on its collective thinking cap and to recognize that the earth is unnaturally warming.

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But the official said the change did not make it more difficult to get a name on the watch list and represented the collective thinking of the nation's intelligence agencies.

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He also meant in our collective way of thinking.

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Better-run urban collectives are finding it hard to get new credit: a mere 17% of bank loans goes to the collective sector, according to Clear Thinking, a Beijing consultancy, while state companies hog the rest.

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It's an example of putting individual needs ahead of the collective good, and of putting short term thinking ahead of long term concerns.

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Now, with Purpose, my team and I are in the business of building and sustaining social movements around major global issues, and thinking about how that translates to collective consumer power.

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There, a spirit of collective irresponsibility takes hold: rather than reforming, or even seriously thinking about, the underlying policies, each country simply seeks to get as much as it can from the trough.

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At the time, it was big thinking and an interesting draw for moviegoers, sort of like the collective asthma attack everyone developed a few years ago for modern 3-D.

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