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...Danny Cohen, BBC3's 33-year-old head: "We don't make our programs with 50-year-old viewers in mind." Among the channel's new projects are not only dramas and comedies but also a Web-based experiment, which Cohen describes as a "weird mixture of YouTube and talent show." Part of the BBC's updated mission is to boost "media literacy" and push its flock to digital technology as analog is phased out. BBC3 intends to set trends and not just follow them...
...Cambridge's Judge Business School, knows why. He writes about the rowers and their lessons for business in a book, The Subjectivity of Performance, to be published next year. In building the best teams, de Rond argues, it's sometimes necessary to jettison a bit of skill for sociability. "Talent is not just an individual trait but a social one," he says. That's true for high-performance business teams too: affable B players often bring out the best in the superstars. "They are lubricants; they can act as a buffer between the others...
There are, of course, differences between rowing and business. Rowers only have one obvious goal to focus on: the race. Business teams often have several, simultaneous and even conflicting goals. Coaches have the luxury of selecting from the best talent on campus, while managers in business usually have to make do with a more limited pool. In both cases, "it is a combinatorial game," De Rond says, and managers need to rely on their instincts as well as objective assessments to find the right mix of players. And that means every top-flight, tightly wound crew might want to save...
...life to aid his work; his wife Joyce comments that Schulz “was always sad” but that when she suggested he go see a psychiatrist, he simply answered that he didn’t want to, because “it will take away [his] talent.” While these details about Schulz are interesting and even endearing, they seem only to inevitably add to the mastery of the comics, and not so much to Schulz as a person. Michaelis notes from the very beginning that Charles Schulz liked to think he was invisible. That...
...King or Queen of England, by definition a foreigner, and not even an elected foreigner: the office of the Australian head of state remains purely hereditary, open only to a small clan of Anglo-German squillionaires known as the Windsor family. This appreciably narrows the field of talent...