Word: actualizations
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...about what makes a team work, such as clearly delineated roles and team spirit, tends to correspond to team-member satisfaction, but those variables often don't line up with financial metrics like sales revenue. "The internal model is burned into our brains," she says, "but research and the actual experience of many managers demonstrate that a team can function very well internally and still not deliver desired results. In the real world, good teams, according to our own definition, often fail...
...farces and richer in bathroom humor than they need to be. They are almost a guilty pleasure for anyone over the age of 30, which does not stop me from skulking off to see them. But with Death at a Funeral, it's particularly and perversely pleasurable to see actual grownups defying modern movie demographics and falling about as if they were a bunch of moonstruck children. They are especially welcome as yet another humor-deficient movie summer grinds grimly toward its conclusion...
...going to bother talking to someone about fashion's future, I'm not going to waste my time with Tom Ford's hazy guesses. I'm going to an actual spiritual medium: James Van Praagh. Having hosted the syndicated show Beyond with James Van Praagh and having written both Talking to Heaven and Reaching to Heaven, Van Praagh has 22 years of paranormal experiences. Can Tom Ford talk to dead people? If not, then I'm not letting him pick out my spring '08 wardrobe...
...other disgruntled users. After it booted Marc Bragg over questionable virtual real-estate deals, the Pennsylvania resident sued the company last year for confiscating property worth thousands of dollars. While Linden won't discuss the merits of pending litigation, it's clear that Second Life's virtual assets have actual value. Linden lets users retain the rights to digital imagery they create on-site, and the result is a thriving economy that's as real as it gets. Attorney Stevan Lieberman made $20,000 last year helping Second Lifers file patents, trademarks and copyrights. And $6.8 million changed hands...
...trouble speaking on the phone, and it was very easy to access the pain and the comedy of that,” he says. “Very early in the process, I stopped thinking about it as my own life, and I never felt beholden to the actual facts as they went down...