The second case is one where you have some sort of offline process and you are thinking of moving to an Internet-based service.
The stakes are high--and success will depend on the rigor of the process and the clarity of the thinking that goes into it.
Schools can help this process along by thinking of their role differently.
Regardless of the biochemical details, the most intriguing thing Dr Baker's result provides is a new way of thinking about how to slow the process of ageing and one that works with the grain of nature, rather than against it.
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D'Amico suggested she wait since she was in the midst of the grieving process and her thinking might not be that clear.
Increasingly, I am finding that if CITOs spend just a bit of time thinking like marketers, taking time to understand the process of marketing, delving into marketing automation technology, and attempting to find sources of data that can be of assistance to marketers, the impact can be tremendous.
For ongoing conversations, particularly around sensitive issues or areas where people have a lot of passion, make your thinking process visible.
Sampson said he and Gonzales had at least "five discussions" about the dismissals, including conversations during the "thinking phase" of the process, the preparations of a final list in 2006, and, ultimately, the approval of the eight prosecutors who were subsequently let go.
"What we need to do is try and get these elements talking to each other, and also to start thinking of it as a complete process, " he says.
They really thought they were right, but they didn't let enough sunlight into their thinking process to really have the kind of debate that needs to take place when a serious decision occurs like that.
It's been our journey and the way of viewing the process that created a platform for smart thinking and a place where everyone acknowledged nobody was as smart as everybody.
As you look back on your views at the beginning of this process, do you see places where your own thinking or your own assumptions were flawed in some way?
But the process is slow and cumbersome, on account of the neurobiological irony that thinking about something--like visualizing tapping your finger on a desk--is often harder than doing it.
Analytical functions and process automation are seen as separate structures, not as an extension of the thinking and actions of the people involved in the system.
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Very few of us stop to consider that thinking itself has been through a long evolutionary process.
But the fact that most employees have gotten used to thinking of anything less than a 3 percent raise as a pay cut means that this adjustment process happens a lot slower than it would have 50 or 90 years ago.
This process systematically narrows the candidate pool, leading to homogeneity in hiring, a reduction in new approaches and new ways of thinking, and a less valuable, less dynamic employee population.
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Prometheus Laboratories that Prometheus obtained a patent on a method of treating digestive-tract diseases that is so broad it prevents its researchers from even thinking about the process it covers.
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