Just as Lafley's daily discovery-driven actions questioning, observing, idea networking showed up constantly in his calendar during P&G's decade-long innovation transformation (as well as before it), we can catch a glimpse of P&G's true strategic priorities by watching where McDonald spends his time at work.
For Simpson, the English common law system "consists of a body of practices observed and ideas received by a caste of lawyers".
Then, as these people told others about what they had heard, the scientists observed which ideas spread and which didn't.
As Brooks observes, these ideas are not new: the importance and legitimacy of sentiment and social influence in determining human conduct was emphasized by figures of the British Enlightenment, notably David Hume, Adam Smith and Edmund Burke.
As John Dewey once observed, philosophical ideas not only never die, they never fade away.
Brian Forde, director of digital currency at the MIT Media Lab, recently observed other ideas flowing at a PeaceTech Exchange workshop in Basra.
It all springs from and can be traced back to that first and seemingly insignificant element, thought or action -- something you observed, an idea you generated or how you responded.
Ryan observes, "The idea that 'the many' might have a legitimate interest in running their own lives just because they wish to is not one Plato entertains.
And as Nicholas Lemann, an author and book critic, has observed, "the idea that America is run by a sophisticated, brainy, culturally liberal group" -- in other words, readers -- is a relatively new one.
This once may have been the case, but, as the Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik recently observed, "The idea that community or faith-based charities were more efficient, effective and capable than the government of addressing economic stringency hasn't been true since the industrial revolution transformed the U.S. from an agrarian to an urban nation".
