Enterprises committed to thinking strategically optimize their ability to shape and leverage change to their advantage. Because neither a business model nor efficiency initiatives can provide a sustainable competitive advantage, wise leaders are re-valuing the role of creative, strategic thinking.
www.klminc.com/strategic_thinking/new_thinking.html www.klminc.com/strategic_thinking/new_thinking.html
American universities have long reaped the benefits of close collaboration with the corporate world, with ’ivy league’ colleges ... Thinking long-term In the longer-term, structured collaborations - such as developing a promising undergraduate, or exploring a new technology - are far more likely to deliver dividends.
www.smh.com.au/news/Management-Focus/Opening-up-the-ivo... www.smh.com.au/news/Management-Focus/Opening-up-the-ivory-tower/2005/02/28/1109546773799.html
BY JENNIFER STONE GONZALEZ | The ivory tower is crumbling. The shortage of tenure-track jobs (once thought temporary) now stretches into the future. Morale, according to recent studies, is plummeting among those who do have jobs. ... I looked where I thought my skills in analysis and critical thinking might be put to good use --
www.salon.com/it/career/1999/03/29career.html
While academia disembowels itself with theory's blunt knives, young scholars must still pursue intellectual livelihoods outside the ivory tower ... While academia disembowels itself with theory's blunt knives, young scholars must still pursue intellectual livelihoods outside the ivory tower.
www.salon.com/it/col/pagl/1998/10/21pagl.html
Resume writing tips and help on Yahoo! HotJobs ... From recent graduates to tenured professors, thousands of scholars are fleeing the ivory towers of college and university employment to seek positions in the private sector. ... "I had to switch from thinking theoretically to thinking practically, and my resume reflected that."
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Let’s suppose, plausibly enough, that sentience (the ability to experience pleasure and pain) is a morally relevant characteristic. Since animals are sentient, it seems there ought to be a moral obligation not to ... “Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed” – Blaise Pascal...
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Many of the constructs that I am asked to develop are . . . nice for ivory tower thinking. I have three years of teaching experience. Which is good, so I have a clue of what I am doing. It just seems that the classroom papers have very little to do with reality of students and how people react.
www.planetisaac.com/teach/2006/08/ivory-tower.html www.planetisaac.com/teach/2006/08/ivory-tower.html
And for the record, I strongly object to the allusion that my opinion on this matter demonstrates ivory tower thinking. I'm desperately worried about the practical ramifications of escaped markup.
norman.walsh.name/2003/09/18/unescmarkup
in their ideal academic geometry, college is located at a convenient spot between work and home. I can relate, for it was exactly this line of thinking that dictated where I sent my teaching résumé.
www.theatlantic.com/doc/200806/college
Vince at Capitol Annex shows another example of Voter ID Idiocy,this time highlighting an editorial from the Texarkana Gazette’s pseudo-ivory-tower-intellectual editorial boardand explains why such thinking is typical of suburban newspaper editors.
capitolannex.com/2008/05/04/voter-id-idiocy-from-the-te... capitolannex.com/2008/05/04/voter-id-idiocy-from-the-texarkana-sun/