Because of this and other shifts (empowered buyers, the knowledge economy), Hinshaw and others suggest we are long overdue for a change in management practices that effectively close the company-customer gap.
We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of the dark, and for as long as we persist in self-centeredness.
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Scientists, and now economists, are telling us that we are long past due for a more honest accounting of the true costs of carbon dioxide, which is being emitted into the atmosphere largely at zero cost.
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But my bottom line is, are we creating 4 million jobs, and are we laying the foundation for long-term economic growth.
"We need to end usage for growth promotion and feed efficiency and think about what we are doing for the long term, " Undurraga said.
"We are there for the long haul to protect the Libyan people, " he added.
Or, do you think we are in for a long, long spiral that lasts ten years?
We are in for a long boom, with only occasional setbacks and corrections.
Whatever the outcome of such machinations, the danger is that we are in for a long period of introspection.
But we also want to make sure that we are in this for the long haul.
The company's chief executive, Bert Nordberg, said the new phones "have been well received by operators and we are now well positioned for long-term growth".
"We are in this for the long term and have experience with multiple generations, so the name should be useful as a symbol of continuity, " says David Rockefeller Jr.
We have been in the business of email for a long time and we are in it to stay.
The poverty in this situation is that as we switch focus from national to local we kid ourselves that these are not linked and that for as long as we focus on one the other will take care of itself.
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It is that we have been living under bad times for so long, and suddenly we are living under good times.
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Teaching this to young adults is a labor of love because we are responsible for developing life-long readers and writers and this task is not taken lightly by my team.
And so long as there are those who long for a better future, we will never abandon our pursuit of a just and lasting peace that ends this conflict with two states living side by side in peace and security.
So while we have grown more cautious for the current quarter, we are still confident that the long-term drivers of semiconductor equipment business remain intact.
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The good news is that we are scheduled for the next Ice Age long before that.
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We are both upset about it and we did not sleep last night for a long time.
"We are committed to the warming for a long time, even if we do take strong action against it now, " Allan said.
"We are touching on something which for a long time was thought to be untouchable - the monopolies, " left-wing senator Alejandra Barrales told Reuters news agency.
We all want those risks to be minimised, we all want this conflict to last as little time as possible but equally we have to recognise, as I think Paddy did, that this is a tough enemy, they are determined, they've been fighting for a long time, we have to recognise that there are risks involved in that process.
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But for how long are we going to look to video games as a motivating factor in tragedies like this?
The only thing we are unsure about is how long it will take for the Earth system to display those atmospheric changes as climate change phenomena.
Bilbo Baggins, played by Martin Freeman seemed to grow a little more slowly into his character, but only because we are used to seeing Ian Holm for so long in the The Lord of the Rings film credits.
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China is in a cyclical slowdown phase currently because it is digesting the investment it has made so far, but for the long term we are bullish as it begins to rebalance away from an export-oriented economy to one much more focused on domestic consumption.
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