The authors observe a sharp divergence between firms that successfully transformed themselves into effective digital organizations and those that did not.
Most significantly, there is a marked divergence between law firm and client valuation of service.
Lewis D. Lowenfels, an expert in securities law at Tolins & Lowenfels in New York, said that the fact that Mr. Grubman continued to litigate while his former firm had settled the matter reinforces the possibility of divergence between the analyst's position and that of Salomon.
Still, the idea that cooperative feeding can be used as an evolutionary marker of this cognitive divergence, as Dubreuil suggests, does not stand firm in light of the above.
In order to draw a firm conclusion, more data on genome constituents compared to known species, divergence time, and evidence of reproductive relationships are needed.
But much of that complexity is caused by the divergence between America's system of taxing its firms (and citizens) on their worldwide income and the territorial system used by most other countries.
These factors are especially prevalent among law firms because of their structure, economic model, culture, and growing divergence with corporate legal departments.
Based on the high degree of sequence divergence between PXC1 and other subfamilies of LRR-RLKs, no firm prediction can be made as to its functional role.
Higher productivity and more hours worked per worker led firms to lay off workers, which, in turn, resulted in the divergence in the estimate of Okun's coefficient.
"Design thinking is inherently about creating new choices, about divergence," says Tim Brown, the chief executive and president of the design consulting firm IDEO, based in Palo Alto, Calif.
