It is partly to do with the definition of work, and partly to do with the data they base their research upon.
These face-to-face meetings are critical to the work we do advocating to increased cancer research funding to find cures and new treatments for breast cancer.
The extent to which the work they do in research and teaching and developing and strengthening the regional economy goes across all universities or can be done in a smaller number of universities or whatever.
Getting away from this for half the day is beginning to give me scope for insights about my work, about the research I do and the people who are kind enough to give up their time to talk to me.
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As I look at my team at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, and at a handful of other SETI teams around the globe, I see very clever individuals who have been willing to forgo the traditional challenges and rewards of academic research to work on a program of immense potential -- to do work that can literally change the world.
As soon as I felt comfortable enough to chat casually with the attorneys whose correspondence and briefs I typed, I asked them whether I could volunteer to do legal research for them on my lunch hour, after work, or on the weekends.
In the process, do great research and educate people on how to really make things work and the applications will come.
While Apple has blazed through the consumer market, however, analysts say Chief Executive Steve Jobs will have a lot of work to do to wrest the corporate market away from Research In Motion, which dominates the market for high-end business phones.
While Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) has blazed through the consumer market, however, analysts say Chief Executive Steve Jobs will have a lot of work to do to wrest the corporate market away from Research In Motion (nasdaq: RIMM - news - people ), which dominates the market for high-end business phones.
However, when that person responds enthusiastically, and then asks for a copy of my book, or for more information, or wants me to do more research, or even strings me along for weeks with emails promising work or coverage, and then that person takes a nose dive off the planet, well, that is when I get mad.
According to a recent survey conducted by the marketing research firm, Maritz Research, our current crop of leaders has a lot of work to do in this area.
"A lot of people who work within the dog fancy and who are here for Westminster will come by to do research, " Mr. Savino said.
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And rather than do the research in-house, companies should close their labs and outsource the work to tiny, nimble startups that can explore bigger, crazier ideas.
While 70% of women say they want to work with a financial advisor, for instance, only 20% actually do, according to Cerulli Associates research.
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You may decide, well, the only thing I can do is to work on Wall Street or work in a big corporation that's not doing cutting-edge research.
Eventually, however, wider awareness enables some processes to be radically transformed for the better. (For more about this, see the big idea on Social Media and Business Process Transformation at CITO Research.) Note that an intelligent activity stream filter is key to making this work, and we do not have one yet.
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