In addition social adds the notion of the unployee (my own neologism), where work particular in co-creation with customers and partners, brings in the notion of someone who does work for the organization but is not employed by them.

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And certainly as we get into a longer legislative debate on climate change, just in my conversations with the CEO, he talked about the notion of if you actually price greenhouse gas emissions into the production of power, you have a powerful incentive to find clean energy alternatives.

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And if someone had the notion to try to do so, the not-in-my-backyard outcry and regulatory steeplechase required would hold up a project for years.

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My last conversation with Adrian Bejan ended on the notion that if design in nature is a universal principle of the material world, then freedom is the key variable that determines how efficiently designs can evolve over time.

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But even after watching the Daily Show for the past week, the notion of a Comedy Central produced political rally still sits off-balance in my oft-laughing belly.

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The notion that working long hours and not taking holidays makes for a more productive workforce is, in my view, a managerial myth, with no foundation in organizational or psychological science.

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