He is nearly 40 and has been a terrific servant of Sri Lankan cricket, has done really well and has transformed the way batsmen approach one-day cricket.

BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

Though the policymakers will be playing a straight bat here, saying a multi-lateral, co-ordinated approach is the only way, two top UK economists I've interviewed - one from the free market wing and one Keynesian - are remarkably close to saying it's time to forget worrying about protectionism, and for the mainstream to start responding to the demands for national solutions.

BBC: #OWS: The brand leaders cannot afford to ignore

The current one-size-fits-all approach to drugs will give way to this laserlike approach and make today's methods seem as outmoded as 19th-century medicine.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

As for acquisitions, the old stamp collecting, one-of-everything mentality has given way to a less-is-more approach.

ECONOMIST: From zoo cage to modern ark

This harsh, cold-turkey, approach to our fiscal deficit has the advantage of forcing the issue one way or another.

FORBES: Gradually Curbing Spending Beats Cold-Turkey Option

One goal of this approach is to eliminate non-value-added activities in Chrysler plants in a thoroughgoing way that the company never has attempted before, down to shaving steps required by an assembly-line operator to complete a given task by asking the worker to redesign the job.

FORBES: Chrysler Is Winning Once Again With Grit, Savvy And Charisma

One way to depict this new approach to technology is to characterise the industry as a series of 100-yard sprints.

ECONOMIST: Beleaguered Microsoft