Right now high-stakes testing and crude top-down thinking is hampering both the public schools and the charter school movement.
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Rather than top-down thinking that leads us to make what we make because we can make it, it reveals the opportunity oceans that surround us.
Waze CEO Noam Bardin says that while his team was thinking bottom-up, figuring out how to sell ads against its traffic content, Meeker was thinking top-down, advising him to imagine how Waze can steal dollars from the multibillion-dollar billboard and radio markets.
We are able to buckle down to thinking, creating and problem solving with much greater efficiency.
It seemed to be a matter of watching the clock wind down and thinking of a celebration for Syracuse's sixth title.
"After sitting down and thinking about this, I'm thinking 'Hey, I've got an untapped reserve over here, and it's the public, '" Clarke said.
The fear of Russia has probably slowed down futuristic thinking that one day the Americans might leave Europe and Europeans might defend themselves.
"We usually give the claimants the benefit of the doubt and take things down, thinking that it's better to be safe than sorry, " says Adelson.
This line of thinking has taken me down the tablet rabbit-hole.
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Up in Flint, Michigan, the thinking is that shutting down the operations up there, cleaning them up essentially, might create 2, 000 jobs, which is more jobs that General Motors has created in Flint in a long time.
They sold converts thinking it was equity just down the road, and it turned into long-term debt when the market collapsed.
The Slovak vote is the last country vote of the 17 EU members, and many were thinking the Slovaks would vote down the bailout expansion.
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And saying the gender issue will die down is wishful thinking.
"One way to lose a lot of money is to sell calls thinking the market was going down, but instead the market goes up, " he says.
But many more were not in fact so: they were brought down by people thinking they might be and thus turning up en masse to demand their money: a bank run.
In thinking about how to break down what was described as a "conspiracy of silence", the Chief Constable of Great Manchester Police Sir Peter Fahy has told me that key is the question of legitimacy.
' stock price has held steady since the company announced last week that it would kick in more for employee healthcare, investors haven't panicked and started thinking the company is headed down a slippery slope toward higher costs.
Judging by the way Wal-Mart Stores' stock price has held steady since the company announced last week that it would kick in more for employee healthcare, investors haven't panicked and started thinking the company is headed down a slippery slope toward higher costs.
Mattie, still tying her robe, ran down the steps thinking stupidly, as she later reflected, only of the embarrassment to this woman, whom to tell the truth she had respected more than loved, and picking up and pressing back upon her the heavy silver, as if this was not something Roscoe should be doing, nor her husband, John Jameson, neither.
Any investor thinking rates are going to move down could potentially make a killing buying this ETF.
In other words, the best teams include pragmatic and idealist employees from the top down, because pragmatic thinking and idealist thinking are not traits held just by leaders.
Later aides insisted she was not suggesting Mr Brown should stand down but had been thinking of events in 2004 when some ministers persuaded Tony Blair to carry on at a time when he was considering quitting.
But some of it is, I think, a lack of creativity in terms of thinking about how do you keep costs down.
No amount of magical climate thinking can turn this one upside-down.
As the 2012 London Summer Olympics winds down, it got me thinking about some of the great moments in history as it pertains to jewelry, gemstones and precious metals.
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