But Mr. Danforth, who served as a special envoy to Sudan during President George W. Bush's administration, also acknowledged that the type of topics the center was likely to take up could be controversial and could prompt exchanges like "I'm right, you're wrong, God's on my side".
This research, my knowledge of and experience in career counseling, the questions from readers in the Next Wave forums (especially the Ask Kathie forum that I moderated for a couple of years), my own personal history, and input and feedback from you will serve as my guide for the type of topics I will cover in this column.
If the teacher has provided an assignment sheet, read it over with a pen or highlighter in hand and mark important details pertaining to the types of topic you may choose, the length of the presentation (if any), materials, sources required, etc. Pay attention to the due date as well you don't want to spend days working on a project only to run out of time before you finish!
These are the types of topics we explore in the D-Lab: Waste course.
Hierarchy or rank shouldn't define your approach and style; it should only make you more aware of the types of topics or issues that should be discussed.
Every executive will have a different comfort level, but some of the types of topics to consider avoiding are things like politics, religion, any topic that could convey bias and also topics that may touch on confidential or proprietary company information.
For instance, at their meeting the Conde Nast editors reportedly asked Trump about his plans for "health care, climate change, relations with Russia, women's issues and abortion rights," which are exactly the types of topics he should be asked about on the record.
Figure 1 shows a breakdown of the types of topics discussed between prescribers and patients.
This will require diversifying the types of topics addressed in systematic reviews (particularly for governance and financial arrangements or for increasingly important topic-specific domains such as long-term care, which are relatively underserved in the current global stock) as well as ensuring relevance to LMICs (for which there are comparatively few reviews).
