Thirteen years ago he penned a book, still in print, called Value-Focused Thinking: A Path to Creative Decision-Making, which says that most corporate executives put the cart before the horse.
We hope that there are more parents that are going to be focused in thinking about ways that we can help you all.
With their time in Timisoara limited, the volunteer team focused on encouraging innovative thinking.
From the end of WWII to the end of the 1960s, the economic thinking was focused on the distribution of wealth and its use to better society.
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Traditional thinking has focused upon the opposite.
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And the previous thinking was less focused on the GOP and the base and its anger at immigration reform.
Argyris described a method for improving the thinking and decision-making of executive groups that involved engaging them both collectively and individually as a coach-facilitator, giving them feedback, challenging their thinking and using focused exercises to help them reflect on how they operate.
But we've been able to do so through some smart thinking, while remaining focused on the people who need our care.
Being good at handling ambiguity is never the result of uncultivated talent, but rather extremely disciplined thinking, gained by years of focused study, careful apprenticeship, knowledge assimilation, and discarding hundreds of would-be good ideas.
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The figures you see in the press tend to be focused on the yield from the ground rather than thinking of the bigger picture.
"Since the financial crisis, programs have focused not on business skills, but on modern thinking, ethics and leadership, which can be a bit squishy, " says Rob Hums, senior analyst of learning and development at State Farm Insurance Co.
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Even at Veba, the most transparent and focused of the three, there is still plenty of conglomerate-style thinking.
But when concerns with those kinds of statements could no longer be ignored, DOD responded by issuing a narrowly focused, technocratic, and purely defensive position that fails to demonstrate any serious thinking about the nature of cyberpower and how it relates to the other elements of military and national power.
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These and other forward-thinking companies are both expanding existing businesses, and creating whole new ones focused on an aging demographic in areas such as financial services, lifestyle, dating, fashion, travel and education.
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Although we at the Federal Reserve remain focused on addressing the current risks to economic and financial stability, we have also begun thinking about the lessons for the future.
For years, heart experts were focused on low-fat diets, but "we've really shifted our focus to thinking about other components, " Dr. Jackson said.
However, many small business owners are focused on making their business successful on a day-to-day basis, and put off thinking about a plan in case the marriage fails.
The big global firms certainly have invested in departments focused on brand-building and consumer engagement via the primary social channels (mostly prodded by their forward-thinking, marketing and measurement-driven clients at CPG companies).
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