In essence, Brito and Watkins are calling for lawmakers and regulators to follow their own playbook, do their own homework, demand evidence, and employ common-sense strategies of critical thinking and decision making.

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Americans get behind the people we identify as heroes and we subsequently swing virtually all strategies, policies and thinking that way.

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Investors need to begin thinking in terms of short-term strategies between now and November because they may be significantly different from those for the longer term.

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Both grant makers and investors have to learn new tricks and use new tools for connected, hybrid strategies (see this HBR thinking on combining giving and investing).

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His approach represents an important shift in thinking about disaster management, and results in effective strategies for local governance and planning.

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Without a doubt, Maine is asking for a lot here, and if granted, the plan would cost taxpayers more in the short run by increasing the cost of the ACA. Yet, what makes the Maine story so interesting is that it adds another example to the list of diverse strategies that are now popping up from states thinking about Medicaid expansion and reform.

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Other strategies for succeeding in an inflationary environment may require some counterintuitive thinking.

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The complexity and interrelatedness of these problems required more than just new strategies: it requires new paradigms of understanding the situation, thinking holistically about ecosystems and interacting parts, and above all, how to create models with enough flexibility to evolve.

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