{"id":849,"date":"2010-08-31T00:05:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T00:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/Wordpress\/?p=849"},"modified":"2010-08-31T00:05:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T00:05:25","slug":"office_jargon_of_the_day_blue_sky_thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/office_jargon_of_the_day_blue_sky_thinking","title":{"rendered":"Office Jargon of the Day: Blue-Sky Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/images\/NewsImages\/2010\/blue_sky_thinking.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Sky Thinking\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>blue-sky thinking, <i>n. Fig.<\/i><\/strong>: Creative ideation not limited by dominant beliefs or paradigms. The term has its origins in the attributive &ldquo;blue-sky&rdquo; referring from the end of the nineteenth century to having a pleasant appearance but with difficulties ignored, unrealistic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example: <\/strong>&ldquo;We need to synergise our people and technology with some blue-sky thinking.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/computer-accessories\/c-310\">Computer supplies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>blue-sky thinking, n. Fig.: Creative ideation not limited by dominant beliefs or paradigms. The term has its origins in the attributive &ldquo;blue-sky&rdquo; referring from the end of the nineteenth century to having a pleasant appearance but with difficulties ignored, unrealistic. Example: &ldquo;We need to synergise our people and technology with some blue-sky thinking.&rdquo; * * [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Office_Jargon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Office Jargon of the Day: Blue-Sky Thinking<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/office_jargon_of_the_day_blue_sky_thinking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Office Jargon of the Day: Blue-Sky Thinking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"blue-sky thinking, n. 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