The premise is strong: use venture on a small, concentrated number of ideas, fostered by experts and internal resources, to create strong businesses.
It's not a matter of simply emulating someone's style but of absorbing, through concentrated exposure, certain ideas about how you'd like to sound.
Although concentrated geographically, the ideas and styles sprouting out were incredibly diverse, yet diverse within the new sensibilities of the Downtown subculture.
On the contrary, the double act is best managed with a loose and open approach during the wild and woolly idea-generation phase, and a tighter, more concentrated one to turn ideas into products or services.
For example, federal policymakers' decision to tear down public housing towers in many cities and replace them with lower-density, mixed-income housing was driven by theory and empirical evidence about the problems caused by concentrated urban poverty, and ideas about how income mixing might address them.
My phone was propped up on the music rack of the piano – never a good idea for concentrated focus – but I was breaking my self-imposed rule because I was waiting for texts and postings from friends and colleagues in Paris who were dealing with the harrowing aftermath of the Paris attacks, which had rocked that city three days earlier.
According to J. N. Findlay, Content and Object is "unquestionably one of the most interesting treatises in the whole range of modern philosophy; it is clear, concentrated, and amazingly rich in ideas" (1963, 8).
The idea for this "concentrated form of music therapy" came to Mr. Beltzer in 1996.
Since I have neck strain that often creeps up into the base of my skull and beyond, the idea of a concentrated massage on my head sounded heavenly.
