Some car buyers would act on the opportunity to save, resulting in a reduction in demand for fuel.
Referrals, meanwhile, are tackling a different pain point for LinkedIn and HR people: while they like to use their employee networks to suggest potential hires, most of them are finding that few employees act on the opportunity, no matter what kind of monetary bonus is waved in front of them.
The responsibility to act on that opportunity lies with us.
Just a few months ago, the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF), Student Veterans of America SVAA), the Posse Foundation, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and a team from Google got together with a single goal in mind: do the work necessary to understand, and then act on the opportunity afforded to our veterans by the post-9/11 GI Bill.
"We have several opportunities to build the production stages in communities that see us as a creative asset, not as an evil empire," the Lucasfilm statement said, "and if we are to stay on schedule we must act on those opportunities".
If only sufficiently good ideas create employment opportunities, making the self-employed more fastidious about which ideas to act on could create employment opportunities for other agents.
If Zimbabwe's government acts on that opportunity, it might then be time to reopen discussion on resuming direct aid.
While some managers easily saw and acted on the opportunity to self-determine priorities, others will need more support to gain the confidence and skills to identify and act on local priorities.
The move of public health into local authorities in the United Kingdom, even in a climate of austerity, may present new opportunities to act on determinants including obesogenic factors, as well as on behaviours through treatment programmes.
