Kant, then in charge of the commercial vehicle division, needed fresh ideas instead of rigid resistance, so in an experiment, he called a meeting of 20 of his most promising young managers--all under 35 years old.
Instead -- instead of rejecting good ideas because we didn't think of them first, let's use the best ideas from both sides.
Instead of throwing money at lots of ideas, the studios are focusing on movies that they feel will have strong chances in the marketplace.
Instead of subverting our ideas about 2000 AD most well-known protagonist, this Prog seems to solidify what we already know: In a world where slabwalkers of any gender can be rented for temporary affection, Dredd ignores it all in favor of his true love, the law.
Instead of writing down your ideas, start first by writing down your problems.
Maybe such consensus would be unlikely, but it would at least force both parties to offer ideas instead of campaign slogans.
Who, for example, would be crazy enough to launch yet another young men's magazine -- and further doom his chances by focusing on ideas instead of careers and entertainment and sex?
The Times' John Markoff said the ClearType announcement was the centerpiece of Gates' speech, meant to show Microsoft as an innovator instead of a company that borrows ideas from others.
Apparently 500 people (read: lazy pizza addicts) were surveyed about what features they would include in the "ultimate" couch, and instead of incorporating only the best ideas, the designers seem to have slapped on each and every suggestion.
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He often cites instead the free-market ideas of Adam Smith to support his claim that it was the profit motive that inspired America's feats of mass production.
Instead of rational beings driven consciously by ideas, we are mostly unconscious beings driven by intents and needs that often happen in the blink of an eye before we are aware of them.
Instead of agreeing to billings by the hour, marketers should pay for the quality of ideas (and results), and efficiency.
Instead of deriding the eBook as a profit-killer, why not unite our old ideas of reading alone in quiet rooms with the vast potential created by new technology?
Companies tend to keep searching for their next great innovation idea instead of tackling these gnarly problems that keep those ideas from being implemented.
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It comes with a book, too: Learning Arduino with the Arno so that you can dive right into advanced projects instead of surfing the web looking for help or ideas.
Managing for the variance, instead of the average, is the outcome of great project leadership: a search for the best ideas, leadership thoughtfulness, ambitiousness, a passion for the job at-hand, the assemblage of the right skills, obsession with details, and unreasonableness in the attempt to get the most out of the talent assembled, are all attributes characteristic of great teams, and of great leaders.
Airbus is now being forced to unveil its latest ideas by mid-June, instead of waiting for the Farnborough Air Show in July, the normal showcase for new aircraft.
Instead, he sketches out his ideas, down to the gram of an individual ingredient, and then his team of chefs are left to execute his ideas.
The way of living he hopes to export isn't the cultural pastiche of gauchos and asados one might encounter at Epcot (though there will be a version of his Buenos Aires tango show), but instead embraces simple ideas, like the indoor-outdoor living in which he revels.
Both as a writer and as a moralist, he regarded the exploration of abstract forms and ideas as dubious, valuing messy humanity instead.
Their ideas include simplifying and standardizing insurance products, indexing premiums annually instead of requiring carriers to ask for big rate increases every few years, allowing insurers to sell high-deductible plans (where buyers could be responsible for as much as two years of LTC costs), and better educating consumers about the price of long-term care and the limited government resources available to pay for it.
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Instead of focusing on sick people or organic chemistry, he kept coming up with moneymaking ideas -- selling T shirts at rave concerts and Filofaxes to fraternities and stationery stores.
And these four finalists have some terrific ideas: putting books that have been ordered every year online instead of continuing to incur the shipping costs, to having a tool library over at NASA so that instead of buying very specialized tools over and over again for different projects, we actually keep an inventory of those tools.
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If environmental groups continue to reject pragmatic solutions and instead drift toward Utopian (or dystopian) visions of the future, they will lose the battle of ideas.
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No longer can we be resting on old ideas and formulae, but instead we need to make sure that we provide the right levels of support for these youngsters so that the transition into adulthood is less fraught and troublesome.
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So Daschle holds hands instead of twisting arms, and he brings the caucus together frequently so members can soak up one another's ideas.
Instead, BGI employs many former BGI students (graduates) as new faculty and this severely limits the influx of fresh ideas in the classroom.
One of the better ideas, he says, is changing the way physicians are paid, so they are given salaries instead of being paid by the procedure.
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