The small-but-steady approach of birds, bees, and ants offers a better model for changing human behavior than the hop-to-it top-down model used by many companies and governments.
And the manner in which the managerial responsibility is communicated is different: communications shift from top-down to adult-to-adult conversations.
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Since games are being built to scale down from the top-end (which means PCs) down to the low-end (smartphones) consoles are stuck in the middle and not able to move the industry from a technical standpoint.
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Businessmen and politicians, often bringing in six-figure incomes, trying to implement top-down reforms on teachers and administrators without asking for input or buy-in, and punishing schools and educators for not meeting their arbitrary standards.
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The first axis looks at how leaders exercise their power, from centralized and top-down to decentralized and bottom-up.
Therefore, the ACE Program is a two-pronged, top-down, bottom-up strategy to connect regional early-stage products and companies to anchor customers and vice versa.
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.
The most significant consequence of these three developments is that, because command-and-control is unsustainable in our new wiki world, the biggest challenge facing traditional organizations is whether or not they can transform themselves from top-down hierarchies to peer-to-peer networks before someone else comes along, creates a competing peer-to-peer network, and puts them out of business.
Generally, I prefer a primarily bottom-up approach with a healthy amount of deference to the top-down, regardless of market cap, and I think such a combination works especially well for penny stocks.
If the board capitulates to this top-down ultimatum, it ought to disband, drop the pretense of outside supervision, and turn the whole place over to the faculty that really runs it.
William Ury, co-founder of Harvard's Program on Negotiation and co-author of "Getting to Yes, " told me that since families are no longer top-down, new rules have to be brokered all the time.
Still intent on the big shots, Gibbs departed in the next over, top-edging to mid-on having come down the wicket again.
The challenge for the Japanese is to open up to individualism and more top-down leadership while retaining collectivism to some degree.
Are we going to double down on the top-down economic policies that helped to get us into this mess?
She grasps the Virgin at the knees, beginning a clockwise oval of hot color the Magdalene's vermilion robe to the orange in Mary's group, to the very warm off-white of the man on the left-hand ladder, to the red-orange garments along the top of the cross, and back down to the weeping man's molten vanilla robe.
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Using a bottom-up approach to his research, as opposed to Mr McCullough's top-down method of looking at the project through a geopolitical prism, Mr Parker has written the Panama story for a new generation.
Swiping from side to side lets you transition between verticals -- it becomes long-winded quickly, unfortunately -- while swiping down from the top edge gives you even more sub-sections to choose from, like photos and video.
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The Republic of Ireland international picked up possession in an innocuous position 35 yards out, and bent his well-placed effort into the top corner after ex-Celt Jackie McNamara had failed to close down the winger.
And we can choose to go back to the same top-down policies that got us into this mess, or you can choose to move us forward with the policies that have been getting us out of this mess.
People were running, they were terrified, they were scared and with good reason because the houses, already ruined, - the walls that were still left standing - were starting to tumble down on top of the road and so people were simply running away.
The Wildcats are feeling awful after becoming the latest top-10 team to go down.
They think that we should go back to the top-down economic policies of the last decade.
What could be better than top-down driving to lift your spirits on the drive home?
Instead of letting market mechanisms work inside the health service, it relied on top-down targets to force hospitals to perform better.
But shadow Home Office minister Andrew Rosindell argued that Labour's "top-down, target-centric approach" to tackling the problem had "quite obviously failed".
Within the bulding, the view shifts to a top-down view of a chessboard, with the chess pieces so far discovered alongside it.
Meteorologists were once limited to a top-down or bottom-up look at clouds.
She adopted a top-down approach to reform that turned off would-be allies.
What we have in Detroit is an Emergency Manager appointed by the previous governor who was facing a challenge from the School District which was frustrated by his top-down approach to school reform.
But no matter how amazing an ad pitchman you are, the financial survival of any for-profit magazine comes down to some ruthless math: you must get top-dollar for your ads or your publication will perish.
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