reconceptualizing

Failure of many development projects in the 1960s led to it reconceptualizing its top-down methods.

One crucial innovation in reconceptualizing genotypic and phenotypic variation was anthropologist C. Loring Brace's observation that such variations, insofar as it is affected by natural selection, slow migration, or genetic drift, are distributed along geographic gradations or clines.

At a time when decentralist and networking values are becoming more accepted and when businesses must do the hard work of reconceptualizing what business they are really in while facing unprecedented foreign competition, it is not the ideal time to be a traditional-type leader, either political or corporate.