In the recent sexual-discrimination case that Ellen Pao brought unsuccessfully against Kleiner Perkins, a venture-capital firm, it emerged that one of the reasons she was not promoted was that she was judged to have fallen short on the thought-leadership front.Pursuing thought leadership simply encourages thought followership, however.
"Jordan School District encourages thought-provoking, informative and accurate reporting of all stories in our school newspapers," read a statement he distributed.
If, like Donohue, you want people to unthinkingly accept whatever they are told, then anything that encourages thought and debate is dangerous.
And the different look of the dancing, particularly by the women, encouraged thoughts of time travel through ballet styles.
There could be strains that encourage thoughts of a voluntary exit, or the expulsion of an errant government if other sanctions do not work.
Mr. Meyer, in a letter to Warner employees on Friday, encouraged "thoughts and prayers" for the victims and advised his fellow workers to seek solace from friends and families, or help from the company's human resources team.
Income from the oil wells in those cities could encourage thoughts of independence, not only among Iraq's long-suffering Kurds but also among restive Turkish Kurds living along the border.
Further, he said, justifications for the law's breadth were insufficient because "the government has shown no more than a remote connection between speech that might encourage thoughts or impulses and any resulting child abuse".
With these competing, not-encouraging thoughts in mind, I reach the downtown area, where an outpost of the nation's single major remaining retail chain is located, situated in an ethical space above the online bookstore, but only just above it.
William Fox-Pitt on Lionheart and King both had a double clear round (no faults and inside the allotted 83 seconds) to encourage thoughts of Britain's first gold of the Games but in collecting seven penalty points, a disappointed Phillips on High Kingdom only just stayed in front of Fox-Pitt to qualify for the individual event.
