Yet in reading some of the posts this morning, I found myself thinking about work and the nature of opportunity and success.
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At a time when the EU is trying to persuade reluctant countries to open up their energy markets to the fierce winds of competition and abandon the French idea of "national champions", Gazprom is a very vivid example that such allegedly old-fashioned out-of-date thinking can work dramatically well for the country concerned.
That's the thinking behind the work of John Redwood's Economic Competitiveness Policy Group.
As we must give regular maintenance to our home, so should we adjust our thinking around the work we do for our clients.
Thinking that the work should speak for itself is not enough.
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Long before talking or thinking about the work involved or the compensation, I made one right move: I chose a client who was honorable and trustworthy.
Empowering and preparing our teams to do their best thinking and best work through added Innovation, Creativity and Focus will help us deliver on our 2020 Vision.
Successful Word of Mouth requires strategic thinking and serious work.
If I'm a business leader, I've got to be thinking about my shareholders and my bottom line, but I've also got to be thinking about the people who work for me and I've got to be thinking about the larger community and I've got to be thinking about the country.
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Oh, and one has Office, but it's not the expensive one you're thinking about buying for work.
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We don't want to leave - we like it here, but we are thinking of leaving to work abroad.
The production throughout is so clinical you could be forgiven for thinking it was the work of a consultant surgeon.
But, decades ago, when we moved from assembling widgets to assembling ideas, we never re-constructed our workspaces to optimize for our work as thinking beings.
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This questions haunts retirees and those thinking about life after work.
Mr Samuelson's determination to provide a unified approach to macroeconomics created a false sense that there was a single way of thinking about how economies work.
Both a wary assessment of the longer-term consequences of appeasement, combined with some thinking about how to work more collaboratively with this nascent regulator, are therefore all the more in order.
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And what I want to do is make sure that the government is on the side of those values, of responsibility and hard work and thinking about future generations and not just thinking about the next election.
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If you are looking for a Zuckerberg legacy it will be found there, long before he learns how to use foreign ATMs. Facebook has provoked us into thinking about a social work place and its impact is profound.
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Teachers are one of the important influences in keeping children at school and supporting students to develop critical thinking skills, to work cooperatively, process information and make informed choices about their lives and their futures is part of the role of a teacher.
From the recent internal Collaboration virtual conference at IBM (see my earlier post on this event, Tackling The Multi-Tasking Work Environment), I found two other interesting frameworks that inspire some thinking: collaboration personae and collaborative work profiles .
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He says he went there thinking he would be given work as a stevedore.
But he said he was not thinking of resigning and would work with any prime minister who emerges.
We should always be thinking of companies we can work with who have access to the type of customers we want.
Max's coauthor introduced him to Yves, who needed some Web design work done, thinking Max would be good for the job.
The biggest defect in Obama Administration thinking about sourcing of federal work concerns the divergent expectations of public and private workers.
Yes, GM negotiated these concessions years ago, and employees went to work every day thinking the company would take care of them for life.
Defense companies need to be thinking about other lines of work where their results are less subject to the whims of a political system that has moved on to new priorities.
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Perhaps you have noticed, for instance, that while commuting to work you are thinking about all sorts of things that don't involve being in the car, train or bus that you ride every day.
"I am very relieved that William and his family have escaped injury and acknowledge the vigilant work and quick thinking of local PSNI officers in spotting the fire and getting everyone to safety, " Mr Kennedy said.
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So when you're looking at your fixed-income portfolio and thinking about putting money to work in this scenario where interest rates are going to be going up, you don't want to be locking in today these very low long-term yields.
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