What is a winning idea in this world of real-time optimization, where the idea is never static, but constantly shifting by design?
But in this case, I had no idea what in the world she was talking about.
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And we have the weight of our idea in the world of public opinion.
On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.
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The root cause of these errors is a focus on the dumbest idea in the world: maximizing shareholder value.
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Shareholders of Apple are, in effect, investors in the largest hedge fund in the world with absolutely no idea what they are invested in.
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Diagnostics for All, a Massachusetts-based start-up that has developed paper-based diagnostic tests the size of a postage stamp, chose to commercialise its idea in the developing world so as to circumvent America's hideously slow approval process for medical devices.
And they have demonstrated the power of this idea both in the corporate world and in international development settings.
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This argument can be paired with the idea that, in the modern world, the nation state is peculiarly wrong-sized for government.
In a world where every possible idea has already been thought of at least once, the urge to innovate is opposed by an equal and opposite drive for safety.
Most publishers, both within comics and in the prose world, had no idea what to do with my books at the time.
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In 1992 Norman conceived the idea for a world golf tournament.
It sounds like a lot of people in the Arab world did accept the idea that many or most of the detainees at Guantanamo were not nice people.
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"If they have any -- and still, that's a big if -- I would doubt that they would use it because a lot of countries and people in the world are negative to the idea of waging war, " Blix said.
The investment bankers had clearly lost basic rationality given the transactions they were constructing, which any way you look at it turned out to be a terrible idea for just about everyone in the world except billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson.
The Angolan Africa Cup of Nations is arguably the continent's most important -- with South Africa hosting Africa's first World Cup finals in the same year -- it will give the world an idea of just how strong teams like Drogba's Ivory Coast, Essien's Ghana and Eto'o's Cameroon will be in football's showpiece event in June.
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During Norman's induction to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2001, Finchem praised Norman for coming up with the idea for the world championship.
Today, on the internet, an idea can spread throughout the world in days.
Some idea sanctuaries may be created in the physical world, in the form of dens, nooks or quiet areas where concentrated work can get done.
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In the 1990s there was quite the cold war going on in the world of networks between the very idea of stateful and stateless networks.
In the 1970s, the idea of a New World Information Order (NWICO) was launched to strengthen the media of what was then termed the Third World.
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It has been the values that we must never waver in defending around the world -- the idea that all beings are endowed by our Creator with certain rights that cannot be denied.
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The idea has proved effective in some rich-world grain silos, but Tanya Stathers, of Greenwich University in England, wanted to see if it would work in the smaller-scale and rather different conditions of storage found in the tropics.
The idea of a Turkish manufacturer competing successfully in the world market seemed to impress Wolfowitz.
The nostalgic idea of romance and adventure in flying around the world ended with deregulation.
But the idea that Britain has the best television in the world has become increasingly hard to sustain.
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