Word: teamwork
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...sorely lacked last week against John Hopkins. Forbush assisted on four Harvard goals, in addition to collecting one of his own in the first period. He now leads the Crimson in that department with seven. Overall, Harvard assisted 12 of their 13 goals yesterday, a statistic revealing improved teamwork...
...management job may be the first time a woman must work as part of a team in order to thrive, several women business students point out. Few women start their business careers with the teamwork experience that men have received from team sports and other activities...
...stickwomen can continue the teamwork they exhibited Saturday, the season should be a good one. A little more aggressiveness from the front line should easily convert a lot of the "close ones" into Crimson scores...
Leakey does not deny that hunting, with its emphasis on teamwork and advanced weaponry, helped to civilize hominids. But he categorically rejects the idea, espoused by writers like Robert Ardrey (The Territorial Imperative), that hunting eventually turned early man into a killer. Indeed, the preponderance of evidence indicates that primitive humans were far more likely to cooperate than annihilate. The fact that history is filled with battles, says Leakey, "does not mean that the specific activity of war is written into our genes, [any] more than is the specific skill to play the game of football, the specific talent...
...change?not just in activities, but in attitudes as well. Of sport and its role in preparing both sexes for adult life, Harvard Sociologist David Riesman says: "The road to the board room leads through the locker room." He explains that American business has been "socialized" by sport. "Teamwork provides us with a kind of social cement: loyalty, brotherhood, persistence." Riesman is one of a group of scholars who believe women have had trouble rising to high managerial positions in part because they never learned the lessons taught so well by competitive sports...