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...orchestra is back at the Usher Hall. Dudamel takes the podium for the Shostakovich. He lifts the baton. The strings ready themselves. Dudamel meets the gaze of his orchestra, their upturned eyes glistening under the bright lights. The bond between them is unmistakable; their performance is breathtaking...
...illustrating the power of interpersonal relationships, the Hawthorne studies helped birth the field of industrial psychology and the obsession with teamwork that we feel every time we haul ourselves to a corporate retreat designed to help us better bond with co-workers. But the world of work has changed quite a bit during the past 80 years. The idea that the power of the group comes primarily from the group itself is as outdated as the rotary dial, according to Deborah Ancona, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, and Henrik Bresman, an assistant professor of organizational behavior...
...share their beneficiaries' poverty and started out alone) to provide individualized service to the poorest in a poor city made desperate by riots. The local Archbishop, Ferdinand Périer, was initially skeptical. But her letters to him, preserved, illustrate two linked characteristics - extreme tenacity and a profound personal bond to Christ. When Périer hesitated, Teresa, while calling herself a "little nothing," bombarded him with notes suggesting that he refer the question to an escalating list of authorities - the local apostolic delegation, her Mother General, the Pope. And when she felt all else had failed, she revealed...
...Argentina's state oil company. As a result of the scan, customs officials at Buenos Aires' Newberry airport found a bag stuffed with $790,550 in unmarked $50 bills. The other passengers on the plane were seven Argentine and Venezuelan oil officials who had been in Caracas negotiating the bond and gas plant deals...
...rout begins. Banks tighten credit, raising the cost of financing corporate and private-equity deals. Other investors then want to reduce their risk. Stock prices fall, and bond prices rise. With global markets so closely linked, fear spreads rapidly around the globe...