Still, that stage trick came too late to alter the impression of a production with no compelling point of view.
While that issue retains its urgency, these days it is interwoven with a second, equally compelling, point of interest - when do we regard armed resistance as being acceptable?
They do this by identifying a thorny issue in the customer's company or industry and developing an original, compelling point of view about it.
Scholarship in this area has been scant in recent years, and in focusing on the figure of the fool, Lande has chosen a compelling point of entry for an important new account.
But while the show, on Saturday, was strong on polished separates like periwinkle and kelly green jackets and sweaters mixed with tweeds and shearlings, it didn't present a compelling point of view.
Elaine Dickerson makes the most compelling point of all about what is required to deal with the horrendous danger of radioactive waste from nuclear power generation: Stop making more of it ("Yucca Mountain is not a nuclear waste solution," Letters, June 11).
Our simple, yet compelling point of departure was the observation that "the contemporary," as a critical category and an object of study, is often taken for granted or entirely omitted from academic discussion.
Jim Goetz of Sequoia Capital noted similarly that entrepreneurs ought to spend more time in the idea phase, honing in on a unique and compelling point of view before trying to build a company around it.
I recently came across a compelling point of view from the Young Entrepreneur Council, focused on how to build your business in a local market, and their advice is valuable to any consumer-facing business.
