Ratbert, a cheerful talking rat who has been hired as an intern at Dilbert's company, pipes up at a meeting: "Let's form multidisciplinary task forces to reengineer our core processes until we're a world-class organization!" "Sounds good," replies the boss, "Go do it." At which point, Ratbert slips away with, "I'm more of an idea rat." After an extensive search, I've found no prior use of this term, so I offer the following definition: idea hawk, noun. 1. one who uses powerful ideas, and advocates their application, in the way that a 'traditional' hawk applies the conventional instruments of military power. I invite any pointers to previous citations of the term. I'm More of an Idea Hawk | 
