Word: teamworks
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...keeps kids out of trouble and away from the TV," says Leea Kielpinski, 28, a nurse in Oakland, Calif., whose nine-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son play competitive basketball. Most sports programs, despite their excesses, manage to promote the old virtues: self-confidence, personal responsibility, teamwork, persistence, the ability to win and lose with grace. "In an organized sport, Danny's got to learn a little teamwork, some structure and discipline," says Terrence Straub, a Washington steel executive and father of Daniel, 9, and two older sons...
Puzzling? I thought so until I learned about the remarkable institution called Odyssey of the Mind. OM, as it's known, gives kids from kindergarten through college a chance to practice teamwork while exercising the mental muscles responsible for creativity. Founded in 1978 by two New Jersey educators who felt that imaginative problem solving was getting short shrift in schools, OM has grown to include teams from all 50 states and 41 other countries; about half a million kids now participate worldwide, competing in regional, state and national contests that culminate in the World Finals each spring...
McCarthy believes parents should encourage young children to play sports for enjoyment of the game. The focus should be on steady improvement of their skills and teamwork rather than on wins or batting averages...
Tomassoni was always conscious of continuing the Harvard tradition of sportsmanship and teamwork embodied by Cleary, his mentor. Never one to cast the spotlight upon himself, he adamantly refused an interview for a feature in The Crimson in March, and he spent the days preceding his resignation informing all his old players before alerting the media...
...their classes, but the reality of the business-school classroom today is a lot more cooperative. First-year student Joey Wat considered several schools before finally settling on Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, where women make up 32% of the student body. "Kellogg is famous for its teamwork culture," says Wat, who was working in management consulting in Hong Kong. "That appealed to me a great deal...