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...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 we see in the real world. This idea of a best team, you should always be circumspect about that...
...years is a long time on the Internet - longer than Wikipedia has even existed. Michael Snow, the foundation's chairman, says he's got a "fair amount of confidence" that Wikipedia will go on. It remains a precious resource - a completely free journal available to anyone and the model for a mode of online collaboration once hailed as revolutionary. Still, Wikipedia's troubles suggest the limits of Web 2.0 - that when an idealized community gets too big, it starts becoming dysfunctional. Just like every other human organization...
...even larger problem is brewing, according to Christopher Leinberger, a real estate professor at the University of Michigan and visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. If there are no longer enough people who want to own overgrown houses in far-flung suburbs, we could see a repeat of what happened in center cities in the 1950s and '60s, when abandoned homes helped set off blight. What we really need to do, Leinberger says, is reinvent entire communities as the sorts of places where people want to live. That means building mass transit and urban-style city centers away from...
...singles, senior Michael Hayes played at the No. 1 seed, making short work of Nicolas Pisecky, 6-1, 6-2, in the round of 16. Hayes proved his mettle in the quarterfinals when he came from behind to win one of the longer matches of the tournament, 5-7. 6-4, 10-8, against Pavel Cerny. But Hayes fell short in the semifinals, losing two close sets, 6-4, 7-5, to the eventual runner-up Loic Sessagesimi...
...Further tests of longer-range missiles are expected in the days running up to the historic meeting between American, French, British, Russian, Chinese and German diplomats and their Iranian counterparts...