Think about the context in which the disengagement occurred: Did you alter your body language?
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Economists need to reach out from their specialised silos: macroeconomists must understand finance, and finance professors need to think harder about the context within which markets work.
Think about it in the context of the age-old game of Telephone where you whisper a sentence around the table until it is distorted into something indistinguishable.
When you think about this in the context of explaining your ideas to employees, customers and investors, perhaps the truth behind what Steve Jobs said starts to become clear.
Similarly, I want to encourage you to think about expenditures in the context of the income that your investments can produce as opposed to the size of your bank balance (or your credit limit).
When we think about sports organizations in this context, we may realize that they are not much different than traditional businesses.
Winners encourage open communication, set high standards without being brutal, encourage people to think about their role in the context of the larger organisation, and weather crises without panicking.
As Srini Rangan and I described in our book, Capital Rising, one way to frame that context is to think about why capital flows to countries and regions.
This is a departure from the standard MVC idea, which is all about software, but I think it works in this context.
But he raises the issue of self-monitoring in an interesting context that not a lot of people think about too deeply: the literal financial cost, as opposed to what Google considers the moral cost.
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But I think very importantly, we also talked a lot about the international context.
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Perhaps Matt Yglesias is right when he, in a very different context, suggests that we need not necessarily think about the long term and that simply focusing on short-term needs is a highly underrated practice.
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While there is nothing concrete to report from Kimera yet on this front, one can think of various scenarios where your car or kitchen appliances might use context information about you to something interesting.
"But I think it's important to put it in context, this is a consultation about a proposed change, " he said.
No longer can employees think about building Microsoft Office, as much as delivering a means to greater productivity, within whatever context the individual is in at the time.
Startup incubators and fellowship opportunities are good models, but we also need to think more seriously about companies and nonprofits sponsoring "innovator in residence"-style positions to provide a creative context.
So while the sports fan in me would love to write a piece about the game itself and specifically why I think the Ravens won, in this forum and in this context, the name of the game is branding and advertising.
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But if we think about gratitude only once a year, we overlook the immense power of practicing it daily, especially in a business context.
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