Word: control
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...team performance, individual performance. It gets you to think about how to evaluate outcomes. For example, when people do performance reviews for employees, what are they thinking about? Often those performance reviews focus on outcomes, where what you should try to separate is the skill component, what people can control, and the luck component - wind to their back or wind to their face. For companies, there are some outliers - some do better or worse for longer - but it's not a large number of companies and we don't understand why. Random processes can explain an enormous amount of what...
...been following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation to isolate those with influenza-like illnesses. UHS has not been testing to differentiate between H1N1 and regular seasonal flu this school year upon recommendation from the Mass. Department of Public Health, instead treating all patients who present with flu-like symptoms similarly...
...There's this new guy, Samuel, whom we met last week, who can control ink, but his actual described power is to control the earth. He wants to find someone to replace his dead brother within his entourage at the carnival. So he goes after Peter Petrelli by pretending to be someone he previously saved and suing him for injuries. They bond. And simultaneously we are introduced to a new character Emma, who is deaf but can apparently see sound in the form of colors. At the end, Samuel collapses a big fancy house into a sinkhole...
Fashion faux pas: Vanessa finally gets her chemically clumped hair under control...
...many of his relatives, including at least three other grandchildren and a daughter of the Imam, has come out in support of the opposition movement. The move was just the latest in a string of developments in the past few weeks that revealed the regime's efforts to maintain control, even at the risk of further alienating the family of the founder of the Islamic Republic. (See pictures of the rise and fall of the Shah of Iran...