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...which is efficiency, and high-performing teams are by far the most efficient way of operating ... By using this process, teams quickly begin having authentic conversations, in real time: dealing with issues and not dancing around them. You see the impact quickly; people either step up or opt out. It becomes very evident where your issues are, who your players are, what you need to do to change the shape of the business. This model can speed up progress in these areas by years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lesson Straight from Mars | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

Subjects with a demonstrated propensity toward anger were much more likely to opt for B. That may be a scary outcome when you're talking about public health, but our economy needs people willing to give up certainty for the possibility of grand success. Of course, some people take on too much risk: the day trader who loses his house; the hedge funder who turns an investor's life savings into dust overnight. But right now policymakers should not be afraid of stoking our anger--and therefore our risk-taking. As Lerner has written, anger is associated with a desire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling Our Way Out of the Recession | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...chilly Saturday in October, Mark Hitchcock and nine friends from New Zealand kick off a four-day bachelor party in Amsterdam with a bit of sightseeing. Rather than admiring the canals on a boat tour or sampling the wares at a coffee shop, however, the men opt for something more active - they mount a 17-ft.-long (5 m) bicycle decked out with a bar and karaoke machine. It takes just 10 minutes (and a couple of beers) before they remove their shirts, attracting the attention of female tourists. "How do we get on?" asks one young American woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Party While You Pedal: Beer Biking in Amsterdam | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

...could create the de facto campus app for all those schools, giving college students information they need while connecting them with one other, you could create a far more useful, mobile version of Facebook. Add on an advertising network - what college student wouldn't opt in to something that gave them free pizza coupons? - and pretty soon you've got a colossal moneymaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can iStanford Take On Facebook Mobile? | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

...Millennium Research Group, there are plenty of women who are done having kids but don't want to go under the knife. The health-care data firm projects the female-sterilization market will more than triple, from $80 million in 2007 to $245 million, by 2012, as these women opt for quick fixes like Essure that can cost patients as little as a doctor's visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Permanent Birth Control | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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