Word: thinks
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...goes. The next time you do something, even if you sustain your skill, maybe you'll have a little less luck, and you'll mean revert. When you apply that to the world, you see it everywhere - corporate performance, sports-team performance, individual performance. It gets you to think about how to evaluate outcomes. For example, when people do performance reviews for employees, what are they thinking about? Often those performance reviews focus on outcomes, where what you should try to separate is the skill component, what people can control, and the luck component - wind to their back or wind...
...would a Web guy like Powazek slave over an old-fashioned paper product? "Magazines are my happy place," he says. "I think print and the Internet complement each other more than people realize." Certainly, there's something about once-in-a-lifetime occurrences that cry out for print. It's as if holding something tangible is a more satisfying way to process and mark big events than bookmarking a page. (See the 25 best blogs...
...sent e-mails to students and professors because I had no other method to let people know what happened,” Gu said in a telephone interview from her Beijing home. “And I think students should work together to fight for their student rights...
...wrote that she believed professors “were aiming at the same goal to force me to leave US in summer 2007 and to withdraw me in 2009. I think it is because I decided to rely on my own research ability without compromising to the male dominated culture in the Economics Department...
...room for misconceptions and misunderstandings, and judging from the confusion over the mailing lists, it already has,” said a recent Harvard alum who asked to remain anonymous to avoid compromising relationships with people in the economics department. “I really think that students should be cautious about jumping to conclusions...