One can't help thinking that buyers of Japanese corporate debt should be similarly marked.

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He never specified which assets he had in mind but he was probably thinking of equity and property, and perhaps corporate debt.

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Can we really think of any corporate function that could not use a bit more innovative thinking?

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The IETF's latest thinking is that corporate networks at the edge of the Internet will migrate to IPv6 first, when they start running into address shortages.

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Additional reporting for this article provided by writer and corporate training specialist Tom Lowery, Founding editor of Vox Universe and blogger at Thinking Out Loud.

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GM, Mr Lutz will have to stir up the world's most monolithic corporate bureaucracy, and challenge the timid, conformist thinking that dominates so much of its decision-making, especially on product development.

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ERGs must become more deliberate in how to enable unique thinking into different points of view and perspectives that translate into solutions to meet corporate growth objectives and initiatives across channels, brands and business units.

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Tice, with a few more years of work experience under his belt than Jablow and Singh, connects corporate responsibility with his penchant for systems thinking.

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Nearly every element of large, hierarchical corporations discourages innovation, from mid-level executives unwilling to upset the corporate groupthink with new ideas, to senior executives afraid to embrace out-of-the-box thinking.

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