Word: teamwork
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...executive's most important task is to spur subordinates to peak performance. Grove emphasizes reducing what he calls an employee's CUA factor, for complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity, to improve teamwork and increase productivity. When the CUA factor is unavoidably high, as when an outside executive is hired to run a troubled division, Grove says, the best advice is to cross your fingers and hope for the best...
Barely discernible amid luscious curled wigs and ruffled pantaloons the ART regulars offer a particularly cohesive version of their usual fine teamwork. Miller's intelligent strategy is to differentiate the characters as sharply as possible, giving each a few eccentricities pronounced enough for easy reference. The servants in particular benefit from the chance to present more than awkward carbon copies of the principals: John Bottoms as Mr. Snake displays: diabolical shuffle and sneer, while the faithful retainer Rowley (Richard Spore) has been so sharply characterized--his hands, legs, voice and cane tremble constantly--that at times he is barely comprehensible...
...speech could only have helped. It was one of the best of his presidency, forceful yet temperate, without the belligerent anti-Soviet rhetoric that has at times made his foreign policy pronouncements seem more simplistic and militaristic than hi fact they are. "It was a model of teamwork," exulted National Security Adviser William Clark at a meeting of Reagan's senior staff the next morning, reflecting the White House's jubilation over the speech...
...with the new mixture of youth and experience in the line-up Saturday, it took a while before the Crimson was able to display its new teamwork...
...spikers' relentless teamwork continued to handcuff Princeton in the next two games. Harvard built 9-2 and 13-5 leads before Ross smothered the Tigers with his towering defense, giving the squad its final two points. In the third game, the same strategy paved the way to a 15-7 Harvard triumph...