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Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below.
I don't do a lot of top-down teaching.
I don't think top-down works in America.
We worry top-down, but we invest bottom-up
We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.
This one is for the boys with the boomin system Top down AC with the coolin system
You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.
[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.
In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang
Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
Got my tank top top down, it probably ain't summer but I ride like that cause I'm hotter than the others.
Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.
If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.
We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.
I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down.
What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is not going to work.
So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.
Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.
I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work.
I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
It's always hard for me to find a therapist who is a black woman or even a woman of color. It's something that we've always been told is not for us. It's top down.
Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.
I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time.
If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.
I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.
This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.
Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.
Top-down leaders, by withholding power from those in the ranks, deprive them of the ability to use the expertise and information vested in them to respond directly and with speed to customer concerns.
Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.
Rather than double-down on the top-down economics that let a fortunate few play by their own rules, let’s embrace an economic patriotism that says we rise or fall together, as one nation, and as one people.
But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.
Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice.
Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.
The first lesson, for all Canadians, is that the closed door, top down approaches to constitution making do not provide the public input or debate necessary to achieve a constitutional consensus that will be supported by the people.
The hydrogen economy will make possible a vast redistribution of power, with far-reaching consequences for society. Today's centralized, top-down flow of energy, controlled by global oil companies and utilities, could become obsolete.
There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really top down solutions that require government-to-government support and aid.
Emergent properties result from interactions between individual parts, so it follows that a top down analytical approach that begins with the whole and dissects it into its constituent parts is bound to miss precisely those emergent properties
[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement.
There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.
The bottom line: All of your investing decisions should be grounded in your own investment policy statement. By taking a "top-down" look at your finances and writing out a road map, your policy statement will add an important element of discipline to your approach.
