Word: teamwork
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...Choir’s philosophy rests on cohesiveness and teamwork, according to Turnbull...
Growing up in a big family in Las Cruces, N.M., taught her teamwork. "Six kids in a two-bathroom home," she says. "If you don't work in shifts and make trade-offs, you can't get out of the house in the morning." Her father remortgaged the house to send her to the University of Chicago. A part-time job at the university hospital began a love affair with medicine, and an IBM internship drew her to business...
...Harry R. Lewis ’68 cited the example of an alumnus he had just met at an event in New York. “[He was a] varsity soccer player, and now heads a division of 600 people in a major corporation; he believes the leadership and teamwork skills he developed in athletic competition was as important to his success as his academic education,” wrote Lewis in an e-mail. “There are plenty of others who would say the same thing...
This year, for the first time in the history of the World Series, two wildcard teams went head to head. The Giants and the Angels, both small-market franchises, represent a triumph of talent and teamwork over the bloated payrolls that have been the hallmark of World Series teams in recent years. Even if game seven had gone the other way—if Barry Bonds (the preeminent hitter of his time, whatever one thinks of his personal deportment) had finally won a ring—this World Series would have had a feel-good finish. And of course...
...father) were afraid to sit him for a day or two, if only to give a chance to a younger, hungrier, maybe better player. They let Ripken stay out there for the same reason he insisted on staying out there: because of the streak. That's not teamwork. That's talent that ripens into obsession and sours into selfishness...