Word: teamworks
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...role in setting U.S. monetary policy. A panel of judges made up of Senior Vice Presidents of the Federal Reserve grilled each team with questions after their presentations. The teams were judged based on their knowledge of monetary policy, the quality of their analysis, and the evidence of their teamwork and cooperation. “Everyone came prepared and ready to rock,” said Murrell, the team’s captain, who has been on the team since freshman year. Motley, the other returning member of the team, described the process of preparation in three steps: data accumulation...
Their instincts proved correct, and Mark de Rond, an expert on teamwork at 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...
...Cambridge crew, De Rond embedded with them for seven months last year, training full-time with the 39 hopefuls vying for an oar in the boat. That meant very early mornings and punishing physical exertion, often in filthy weather. He came away with more than the usual platitudes about teamwork and persistence. Like high-level executive teams, Oxbridge rowing crews operate in stressful, pressure-cooker environments. Both are made up of ambitious players from diverse backgrounds whose personalities often have edges as sharp as their talents...
...selfish, pampered, rap-listening, womanizing, good-for-nothings?” The image of the NBA player has gotten so bad that teams like the Indiana Pacers have removed their players from commercials, instead emphasizing the coaches and management—who are associated with “hustle, teamwork and fundamentally sound basketball”—over the players, who are associated with “hip-hop culture.” With all this, how does one counter the negative image of young black men? Perceptions take a notoriously long time to change, and the fight...
...sport that often hinges on the teamwork of a skipper and his crew, last weekend showed that sometimes it’s a single hand that lends itself to the most success...