This thought came to me as I was reading about a project called 999Bottles ( www.999Bottles.com).
This thought process turns into an incredibly helpful brainstorming method for use with your team.
Now do this thought experiment and try and simulate it in a private sector context.
Of course, in the case of the particular questioner, this thought was purely hypothetical.
Try this thought experiment: Your smarty-pants car is fitted with something called intelligent speed adaptation.
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The following narrative illustrates how this thought process is playing out in one real company.
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At this thought, I am galvanized into action, thrusting clothes at Sarah with alarming ferocity.
As unpleasant as this thought is, the older you are, the greater risk that you will die.
No sooner did I have this thought, however, than I began to drift off into pleasant semiconsciousness.
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The only problem with this thought is that it is simply wrong as the following chart shows.
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Only when you can acknowledge this thought forming in real time can you loosen its hold over you.
Which means that negotiations with Italy over any restructure or bail out will always have this thought in mind.
And having consolidated the industry, the biggest banks are further emboldened by this thought: where else are you going to go?
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This thought flattered me, and I was ashamed that it flattered me.
As we all pondered this thought, a waiter arrived with more wine.
But this thought will not be enough to cheer all would-be presidents.
This thought hit me with force Thursday as I sat at a breakfast in Denver given by the South Metropolitan Denver Chamber of Commerce.
Try this thought experiment: Suppose the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell to 5000 and stayed there, supine and sick with Asian flu, for several years.
Fine, you might say, this thought just involves developing a better system of leadership in your organization, the retinue of HR, Talent or Learning departments.
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This thought stuck in his mind, Francis said, as it became clear that he had won the two-thirds majority that meant he was the new pontiff.
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For most market participants, if this thought occurred to them in a dream, it would be more than enough to cause them to wake up in cold sweats.
You know, she had this thought that it might not work out, and she had developed, you know, a serious of ideas, which I think is absolutely the ticket.
But lingering in this thought is a needling twist of irony: We would never take on the risks our parents took let alone the risks taken by the Pilgrims.
This thought of him as a patient and curious voyager forced my hand, to delve deep, to read the plaques, to slow down and just gaze at the blinding white stone columns.
This thought-provoking and frankly outrageous idea comes to us from Matthew Hulbert of ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Christian Brusch, a lecturer at the University of Zurich.
Consider this thought experiment: Imagine if the incoming Congress and Obama administration raised taxes on capital gains to 30% only to discover that the revenue receipts were not as high as planned.
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