A crutch of corporate culture that often gets in the way of innovation is top-down thinking.
Yet, it is often top-down thinking about how to change the situation around business rather than change the way business is conducted.
Cynics wonder whether the education ministry's deeply-rooted top-down thinking may not be inconsistent with its desire to create independent individuals.
The emphasis on top-down thinking, rather than anything created writer-up, meant that a new form of censorship began to impose itself.
"In Germany, this kind of top-down thinking is not too popular – health and gymnastics were a very active part of national socialism.
Klein also stressed the point that Kano isn't just about learning to code, suggesting that some of the recent drive towards children and programming may have suffered from "top-down" thinking that underestimated its audience.
But enacting a "digital transformation" against an organization that is mired in calcified processes, non-customer-friendly behavior and restrictive, top-down thinking will simply add a layer of shiny new systems on top of all this dysfunction.
When we see the bigger picture, we discover there are infinite ways to get from A to B. Top-down thinking is contextual.
And given that top-down thinking not only brought us a Depression-level crisis, but also shows no signs of getting us out of it, it's bottom-up innovation that will be more relevant.
But there is also "top down" -- racial thinking, picked up from other people, teaches the amygdala that race is important to notice.
Ironically, cap and trade legislation -- intended at some level to protect such values -- fell victim to exactly the same top-down, insular thinking that has carried us all into the maw of a global climate crisis.
