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The company, which has bases in London and Birmingham, is all about challenging conventional wisdom, he says.

First, until just a few months ago, the conventional wisdom was that the US would avoid recession.

It is a bit of conventional wisdom that undecided voters seek comity in their leaders. There was none of that in Tuesday's debate.

Only a few months ago, the conventional wisdom was that Beijing would want a strong market to show off at Olympics time.

But markets might be considered to be different, because conventional wisdom can be self-fulfilling.

A. Until about the 1960s, the conventional wisdom was that bilingualism was a disadvantage. Some of this was xenophobia.

The conventional wisdom seems to be that economic forecasting is impossible, and that economic forecasters are charlatans.

"Pesky new fossils. . . sharply at odds with conventional wisdom never seem to cease popping up, " Ruben wrote in his PNAS commentary.

For fund managers based in Asia, recent market events seem to have turned conventional wisdom on its head.

Ignore conventional wisdom - comparing options directly is often too difficult because we're forever weighing up apples against oranges.

So this seems like a good time to declare that the new conventional wisdom is all wrong.

To define such widely spread misconceptions, Galbraith wrote: "I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the conventional wisdom. "

It has not, as conventional wisdom now goes, been a fiscal failure, except in Greece.

The extent to which this conventional wisdom had taken hold came out clearly in both Iran and Afghanistan.

Conventional wisdom holds that, at this point, Hillary Clinton has only the faintest hopes of securing the Democratic nomination.

But the conventional wisdom is often wrong, and this time will be no exception.

Conventional wisdom does not give Dr Abdullah much of a chance of beating Mr Karzai in any circumstances, on ethnic grounds .

"That's craggy old Wall, anyway, " seems to be the conventional wisdom.

Consider what happened the last time he strayed so far from conventional wisdom.

Now Mr Thompson is running for president, but the conventional wisdom about him has not changed much.

It's been a big year for diet and nutrition, with a lot of new information as well as updates of "conventional wisdom" .

To fulfill the purposes God made you for, you will have to challenge conventional wisdom and replace it with the biblical metaphors of life.

Both the presidential election and various statistical measures appeared to bear out the conventional wisdom.

And conventional wisdom seems to be taking a new beating on another front.

These results overturn conventional wisdom, at least in the medical specialty that concerns itself with obesity and related diseases.

This has not been a good year for conventional wisdom.

The conventional wisdom on Wall Street yesterday appeared to be 'no, ' but the team at GaveKal Research isn't quite so sure.

Alternatives to that conventional wisdom are suddenly a live topic, and blogs have brought experts on them out of the shadows.

Even so, the conventional wisdom--that America needs Chinese financing to continue its wild spending--turns out to be wrong.

Until it filed its S-1 on last Thursday, the conventional wisdom was that Groupon was a profitable company.

But according to a pair of reports in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, that conventional wisdom may be wrong.

Conventional wisdom holds that the eurozone problem is the adoption of a common monetary policy without a common fiscal policy.

He never watered his new trees, which flew in the face of conventional wisdom.

Challenge an old assumption. Question conventional wisdom. Be a little outspoken.

The Wall Street Journal, with its emphasis on long features that upset the conventional wisdom, suited me.

But as with much conventional wisdom, this analogy does not hold up to closer inspection.

The outcome of the Seoul summit seemed to confirm a conventional wisdom: the US can no longer get its way in a bust-up with China.

Conventional wisdom holds that the deep end would be safe (until the pool's normal circulation mixed the contaminated water throughout).

Some of these principles are variations on old themes while others turn the conventional wisdom on its head.

Until recently, the conventional wisdom was that the Fed wouldn't let the 10-year yield cross 3% and risk throttling the refinancing wave.

The conventional wisdom was that Jordan should be the second Arab state to make peace.

Conventional wisdom had it that 2005 was the top of the copper market and that commodity prices would soon tumble.

Although conventional wisdom has it that? . , the reality of the situation is often far more complicated than that.

The conventional wisdom used to be that alcoholics had to hit bottom before they got better.

According to conventional wisdom, responding angrily to another negotiator's offer sometimes helps you get more of what you want.

Competing with the Total Control Theory there is another bit of conventional wisdom about emotional control that is also quite prevalent.

Conventional wisdom and previous research suggest that similarity judgement and difference judgement are inverses of one another.

Now, the conventional wisdom was that Nigerians don't read literature.

When the CW -- conventional wisdom -- about what's going to happen turns out to be wrong, there are big profit opportunities.

It may reveal a new phenomenon, be counterintuitive, or challenge conventional wisdom about an old phenomenon.

This text addresses these constructs of gender and ethnicity in a manner that challenges the conventional wisdom within the health sciences.

Conventional wisdom says our earliest ancestors first stood up on two legs when they moved out of the forest and into the open savannas.

That batters conventional wisdom about the mainland market and might suggest where a bottom for some of its shares could be found.

Now, conventional wisdom would say that you aren't supposed to store that many ridiculously small files on a filesystem.

The conventional wisdom almost always sounds smart -- and is almost always wrong. The U.

If the United States sneezes, economic conventional wisdom holds, the rest of the world will catch a cold.

This conventional wisdom holds that much of the increase in credit was channeled to state-owned firms in traditional industries like steel.

Conventional wisdom tells us that you can truly feed your head. But can what's on your plate really affect how you feel or think?

Conventional wisdom holds that sleep is a resting state of the brain, with negligible activity of cortical neurons.

For somehow the rats get at all ideas which conflict with the conventional wisdom of the Department of Education.

Most of all, America has a culture of learning that challenges conventional wisdom, even if it means challenging authority.

Conventional wisdom may suggest that your key tool of influence is the power or formal authority that comes with your title.

In his concluding thoughts about conventional wisdom, Mr Galbraith said that "the ultimate enemy of conventional wisdom is circumstance" .

Conventional wisdom holds that terrorism is inherently political, and that people become terrorists for political reasons.

We cannot enhance our Physical well-being if we're not prepared to question conventional wisdom about diet and health.

Maybe inflation really will stay tame. But I'm not counting on it. I'm not buying the conventional wisdom, and neither should you.

One bit of conventional wisdom does hold water.

CONVENTIONAL wisdom says that it is better to be a large company than a small one when credit is tight.

('It was heresy. ') For its part, Mini has been going against conventional wisdom ever since its risky introduction to the U. S.

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Conventional wisdom is the enemy.

Conventional wisdom says that you gain far more in working as a team than you lose by diluted by half before you start.

"Atsome point, " he added, "you revert to a focus on our fundamentals, andthose are decidedly better than conventional wisdom has it. "

Or were the platitudes in his Inaugural Address a sign that he'll wait for the conventional wisdom to catch up with events?

One might even amend the old Wall Street saying to read: bulls make money, bears make money, but conventional wisdom gets slaughtered.

The old battle between "conventional wisdom" and its debunkers isn't what it used to be.

An event shocks markets when it contradicts conventional wisdom of how the financial world is supposed to works.

As an asset manager, I have come to view conventional wisdom as the surest path to investment underperformance.

It may not have been the most sustainable leadership strategy, but of course, Steve Jobs bucked much of management conventional wisdom.

Certainly not that companies should turn conventional wisdom upside down and re-embrace the old order.

Forget conventional wisdom and ignore play- by - play economic commentators . Buy federally guaranteed , inflation protected TIPS.

Conventional wisdom in Washington says they will win control of the House of Representatives, where all seats are up for election.

It is now conventional wisdom that recent events have guaranteed a heavier regulatory hand for government in the economy.

It may not be the conventional wisdom, but it is the truth.

Chaotically, but quickly, the studios are about to bulldoze conventional wisdom about how films should be sold.

Conventional wisdom says such an agreement is impossible: the problem is too big, the politics too difficult.

Their findings challenge the conventional wisdom that estrogen is a risk factor for stroke at all ages.

The conventional wisdom that Chinese consumers are more brand-driven than shoppers in more developed markets remains true.

His cocky contempt for authority led him to question conventional wisdom.

The conventional wisdom on moving up the corporate ladder often stresses the importance of gaining new skills or improving weaknesses.

Conventional wisdom claimed such locked arms races are a silly waste of time or an unfortunate blind trap to get stuck in.

Those three statements are a rough summary of the current conventional wisdom about China .

Their lack of conventional wisdom and utter disregard for how others view their decisions allows children to experiment without anxiety.

So I try to look for investment opportunities that run counter to conventional wisdom.

But the conventional wisdom is only half right: in the 1990s China experienced a particularly nasty real-estate rout.

George Washington's eighteenth-century radicalism evolved into the twenty-first century's conventional wisdom.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, it will not mean that companies close their Chinese factories and stampede to somewhere poorer.

Conventional wisdom has it that mountain biking is far more dangerous, but I disagree.

According to the conventional wisdom, before the modern age, women in China were the property of men. They had no freedom, no rights.

Our perspective on a differentiated workforce turns conventional wisdom on its head.

The biggest threat to the conventional wisdom is the potential for a dip in risk appetite.

Now the conventional wisdom is the opposite: lots of choice makes people less likely to choose anything, and less happy when they do choose.

As in many other situations, it seems the experts and the conventional wisdom have been wrong.

If managers can get beyond the conventional wisdom, the growing pool of too-good applicants is a great opportunity.

Mary J. Blige's eighth studio album, "Growing Pains, " defies the conventional wisdom that aging works against female entertainers.

When conventional wisdom said no one could make a hotdog longer than six inches, you dared to dream.

Or at least that's the conventional wisdom.

Following conventional wisdom has led a generation of investors down the road to ruin.

Conventional wisdom about rape is at best distorted and slanted.

Pure Gladwell: cutting through conventional wisdom to define a new way of understanding how something works.

Conventional wisdom has it that choosing the best algorithm trumps any micro-optimizations.

It ignores the Western conventional wisdom. It sprawls into dozens of unrelated industries, from microchips to insurance.

Despite conventional wisdom, men experience biological changes during a pregnancy, albeit not as extensively as women do.

In other words, the conventional wisdom that more inventory leads to less stock outs does not hold true.

But conventional wisdom about Japan still often lags behind the emerging American strategic intent.

It is conventional wisdom among economists that monetary policy is precise, predictable and effective, while fiscal policy is the opposite.

The worst course in the face of uncertainty is blind faith in conventional wisdom and past patterns.

Is there anything positive to be said about conventional wisdom?

If true, Allen's account would upend key pillars of the conventional wisdom regarding Microsoft's history.

Without becoming a cynic, you can develop the habit of instinctively distrusting thoughts that rely on conventional wisdom.

A 2001 book, "The Myth of the Paperless Office" , summed up the conventional wisdom.

Conventional wisdom holds that economic development can help fight not just insurgencies but terrorism, too.

Conventional wisdom has it that globalisation and the spread of deregulation have been an economic boon for the English-speaking countries.

I recognise that I accord a much larger economic role to equity prices than is the conventional wisdom.

But in the liturgy of the conventional wisdom, the praises of price competition are still vigorously sung.

Conventional wisdom says international stock markets are much more 'risky' than Wall Street.

And, as even Microsoft tell us that passwords should be 14 or more characters, conventional wisdom must be right, right?

In principle the problem is not hard to solve but the solution runs counter to conventional wisdom.

Conventional wisdom, planted intelligence, and hoary rumors have long been the coin of the realm.

Mr. Galbraith clearly preferred taking issue with the conventional wisdom he distrusted.

Revolution won't spread to China, goes the conventional wisdom, as long as the economy keeps humming.

So be awake. Understand conventional wisdom, but be prepared to change it.

Conventional wisdom holds that the Bush name is still so toxic that he should wait.

Instead of catering to heavily populated areas, which conventional wisdom would advise, Walton started building stores in rural areas.

He drove his son extremely hard, rejecting conventional wisdom and traditional training methods.

The uniformity of conventional wisdom determines the fads and fashions that routinely grip markets.

Perhaps this sounds crass, but there's truth to the conventional wisdom that having kids changes everything.

Two other studies published in the same volume similarly overthrow conventional wisdom about plants.

New research runs counter to conventional wisdom that middle-class children have hectic and stressed-out lives.

Month by month the ideas that once prevailed on the angry fringe enter the mainstream and turn into conventional wisdom.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, fiscal policy is not exhausted.

For instance: conventional wisdom says that the crime rate should rise during a recession.

Trading has taught me not to take the conventional wisdom for granted.

Networks based on strong ties produce the power of loyalty, but may become cliques that re-circulate conventional wisdom.

Yet the conventional wisdom argued strongly against Mr Obama seeking the White House in 2008, and we all know how that turned out.

Consider small children. Conventional wisdom says that shoes are for wearing and bananas are for eating.

For one thing, the emerging power structure in Moscow seems more complex than conventional wisdom holds.

Eat right and exercise, conventional wisdom has it, if you want to avoid joining the diabetes epidemic.

The conventional wisdom of academic investment theorists is taking a terrible beating in the post-bubble era.

Conventional wisdom says women apologize too much, and men don't apologize often enough.

Conventional wisdom says the ideal proof should be short, simple, and elegant.

Challenge conventional wisdom or challenge the audience's assumptions.

The conventional wisdom is that Italians do not care about what their politicians do in private.

The conventional wisdom is that the Republicans have a superior "get-out-the-vote" operation.

The conventional wisdom is that tips both reward the efforts of good service and reduce uncomfortable feelings of inequality.

Standing in the way of reform is conventional wisdom, deep cultural resistance and foundational concepts of trauma psychology.

Those present at the WEF are the establishment and so are almost inevitably prisoners of the conventional wisdom.

But the biggest gap between Mr Greenspan and conventional wisdom lies in the role of monetary policy in causing the crisis.

At the time, this was conventional wisdom on Wall Street.

Kohn specializes in attacking conventional wisdom in education.

According to conventional wisdom, clean coal is the great hope for China, and China is the great hope for clean coal.

Indeed, in historic terms, conventional wisdom about bond markets has been turned on its head.

The conventional wisdom is that 2010 will be a year of recovery for pay.

The conventional wisdom suggests that everyone under 30 is comfortable revealing every facet of their lives online.

Conventional wisdom is that the bursting of the internet bubble ushered in a brief but savage bear market.

Conventional wisdom has it that the George Washington is soon to become an empty symbol.

But conventional wisdom always leaves lots of questions unanswered.

While I was training to become a family doctor, I learned the conventional wisdom about nicotine addiction.

Conventional wisdom had it that early exposure to potential troublemakers, from peanuts to pets, could lead to allergy issues later.

The crisis upended conventional wisdom about the relative merits of governments and markets.

"The conventional wisdom is that Angela Leong will be leading the company, " Mr Tulk said.

But in1977 a startling discovery challenged conventional wisdom about life's fragility and, perhaps, its origins.

Conventional wisdom today says the wealthy are exempt from the forces of economic gravity.

But the rich and poor may be far more fluid than the conventional wisdom would have us believe.

Cynics scoffed, repeating the conventional wisdom that sanctions don't work.

In the end, I doubt it will even overthrow much of the conventional wisdom about states and markets.

But it is conventional wisdom that the use of globals is a bad programming practice.

They are happy to discuss and explore multiple possibilities and are keen to challenge conventional wisdom.

Conventional wisdom has it that a normal cell undergoes a number of genetic mutations to eventually become cancerous.

Conventional wisdom holds that the "surge" broke Iraq's insurgency the following year.

When Tesco began doing so, it went against the conventional wisdom.

Until then, however, programming remains an art, or so conventional wisdom has it.

This would be the opposite of the conventional wisdom and so probably correct.

how political caricatures and nuggets of conventional wisdom lodge themselves in our brain without us ever taking the time to examine them.

The conventional wisdom still says America won't be pulled down by global economic woes.

Conventional wisdom has been that Asia follows and the developed markets, particularly the US, lead.

Here again, it argues, conventional wisdom misleads.

A new conventional wisdom about the choice of exchange rates has emerged in the international forums.

Our brains love change, contrary to conventional wisdom.

Conventional wisdom is that passwords should be long and contain a mixture of lower and upper case letters and characters and symbols.

Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the Chinese government is not anti religious .

domestic According to conventional wisdom, voters usually make their choice on the basis of domestic issues.

Freelancers are lonely, or so says conventional wisdom.

But new research may knock the legs out from under this conventional wisdom.

Why is Apple defying the conventional wisdom and going vertical?

The sticking-point, according to conventional wisdom, is securitisation.

Despite conventional wisdom, it is actually more important to tackle the latter first, rather than fretting about the former.

THE conventional wisdom about southern politics is that it all comes down to race.

"Contrary to conventional wisdom we are not inactive, " said a senior official.

The conventional wisdom is that it will also be possible to manage a smooth exit.

It ignores the Western conventional wisdom.

As with most conventional wisdom there is an element of truth in it.

The conventional wisdom on Wall Street is that the gold bubble is about to pop.

Conventional wisdom says the stock market has gone too far, too fast.

This year's conventional wisdom: Portugal and Spain are next.

Conventional wisdom holds that people should be afraid of turning 30.

And there are signs things are not everywhere as bad as conventional wisdom suggests.

But sometimes the conventional wisdom gets it wrong.

The moves run against conventional wisdom.

But this understanding hasn't penetrated the conventional wisdom.

Those few who defy the conventional wisdom are ignored.

The plan defies conventional wisdom in the auto industry and in Detroit.

In declaring Keynesian economics vindicated I am, of course, at odds with conventional wisdom.

It is already conventional wisdom that a huge part of the stimulus program will be funded by borrowing.

If nothing else, 2008 showed that conventional wisdom isn't always terribly wise.

Conventional wisdom says that a stronger yuan would reduce China's current-account surplus.

But maybe the conventional wisdom wasn't quite right.

The conventional wisdom is that governments should lead rather than simply reflect public opinion.

Conventional wisdom says that wines should be stored at an ideal humidity level of 70 percent.

Such, at any rate, is the conventional wisdom.

The new conventional wisdom is that integration is a "two-way street" , making demands on both hosts and newcomers.

A study lasting for more than 80 years debunks conventional wisdom.

In some sectors, Tata follows conventional wisdom.

Each panel is designed to challenge a particular tenet of conventional wisdom about the future of news.

"The conventional wisdom is that casual sex [. . . ] is harmful. That's what we've been teaching kids for a decade. "

This conventional wisdom is valid most, but not all of the time.

Conventional wisdom is that those with the most powerful country will win military advantage.

Of course, conventional wisdom says it's a no-no.

Conventional wisdom says that a stronger yuan would reduce China's current-account surplus. Yet the empirical support for this is weak.

Today, the notion that Japan is on a long slide is conventional wisdom.

The conventional wisdom of the Internet industry is that the rest of the IPv4 addresses will be allocated in 2012.

This is not what conventional wisdom suggests.

Cuse: But the show's already violated a lot of conventional wisdom about television.

According to conventional wisdom, Apple blew its first chance to dominate the computer industry.

The conventional wisdom is that police officers have high divorce rates.

But this race has proven conventional wisdom wrong time and again.

The conventional wisdom is that high wage rises increase inflation.

Our new conventional wisdom is that China's policy leads to escalating trade deficits and the loss of American manufacturing jobs.

But the conventional wisdom that one dog year equals seven human years is an oversimplified view of how old your dog is in human years.

They find much truth in the conventional wisdom, but also some solace for those who believe small is beautiful.

The conventional wisdom is that the west can do little to punish Russia.

The conventional wisdom is that boys mature more slowly than girls.

The conventional wisdom is that a profound shift of economic and political power from west to east is indeed under way.

Yet this conventional wisdom is very likely to be wrong on one or both dimensions.

Last year's conventional wisdom: sovereign debt crisis don't happen in developed countries, especially ones located in Europe.

I have italicized "part" and "costs of transition" because they epitomize key defects in conventional wisdom.

That is the conventional wisdom, but it is wrong.

What these products have in common is that they reject the conventional wisdom about how people want to play games.

That is the conventional wisdom.

On the other hand, conventional wisdom also tells us that women are typically looking for romance, stability, and love.