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Forget What You Learned in Grade School: Five Teamwork Myths

Forget What You Learned in Grade School: Five Teamwork MythsCollege 2.0, overcompensating?Having just graduated with a degree in computer science, I learned a different set of 5 myths, they are:1) Teams are always bad2) Reaching consensus is always a waste of time3) "I" is the only team you can count...

Tags: Team management, Ego, team, teamwork

Discussion threads 2007-08-09

Film Director Joe Carnahan: Managing a $17 Million Project

Directing a film is a lot like running a business. You have a budget. You have crew. And then you have the biggest H.R. challenge the world has ever known: celebrity egos. Director Joe Carnahan has worked on the low-budget "Narc," the $17 million "Smokin' Aces" and the $180 million...

Tags: director

Videos 2007-09-26

How to Suffer a Micromanaging Boss

I have a question about micromanaging CEOs. How should competent staff react when the CEO wants to be informed about and involved in every detail of the company, to the point that everyone feels as though they have someone looking over their shoulder all day long waiting for something...

Tags: Where's The Line?, choru

Blog posts 2007-09-17

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Greatest American Dog (7 p.m., Ch. 2): Another dog and its owner are eliminated. Last Comic Standing (7 p.m., Ch. 5): The competition continues, and Utahn Marcus is still in the running. Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (7 p.m., Ch. 13): Jeff...

Articles 2008-07-17

Eldorado Increases Stake in Frontier to Over 95%

Paul N. Wright, President and Chief Executive Officer of Eldorado Gold Corporation (TSX: ELD)(AMEX: EGO) ("Eldorado" or "we") announced today that Eldorado has taken up and accepted for payment an additional 4.9 million common shares of Frontier Pacific Mining Corporation ("Frontier") that were tendered since July 2, 2008 to its...

Articles 2008-07-16

Meet Singer-Songwriter Aimee Mann and Acclaimed Author Joseph O'Neill "Upstairs at the Square" on Thursday, July 31, at the Union Square Barnes & Noble

Journalist Katherine Lanpher Hosts the Evening NEW YORK -- Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, today announced the next event in its buzzed-about series, "Upstairs at the Square," held at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in Manhattan (33 East 17th Street at Union...

Articles 2008-07-14

*Revised* Analyst Reports for Quest Capital Corp., NovaGold Resources Inc., Centerplate Inc., and Eldorado Gold Corporation

MaybachFinancial.com is one of the fastest growingindependent and unbiased research firms in the world. Through our numerouspartnerships with many of the top investment minds in the world, we provideresearch on companies making a move in the markets. Investors seekinggenuine analyst opinions on their investments for Quest Capital Corp.(AMEX: QCC), NovaGold...

Articles 2008-07-14

MAIL IN PRINT . . . AND ONLINE

Nationalism's appeal should be ignored NATIONALIST movements all over the world during the past two centuries have similarities that are quite uncanny. There is almost always a charismatic, arrogant, ego-driven leader; this leader is usually distrusted by many in his own movement but their...

Articles 2008-07-13

Frankenstein monster out for revenge

IN any sane world, Dwain Chambers would be a non-person, a cheat airbrushed from history. But sanity was flogged to within an inch of its life at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham last evening. Chambers turned the Olympic trials into a one-man...

Articles 2008-07-13

Brazauro and Eldorado to Partner on the Tocantinzinho Project and Tapajos District Exploration

all amounts in Canadian dollars - Eldorado Gold Corporation ("Eldorado") (TSX: ELD)(AMEX: EGO) is pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement for Eldorado to earn an interest in Brazauro Resources Corporation's ("BZO") 43,000 hectare Tocantinzinho Project ("TZ Project") in the Tapajos District of Para State, Brazil. In addition...

Articles 2008-07-09

Guys from 'Car Talk' reluctantly tackle TV

BOSTON -- Tom and Ray Magliozzi, aka Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, of NPR's "Car Talk" fame, are just two low-ego lugs. That's why -- familiar self-deprecating shtick aside -- the boys' ambivalence about their new public television series rings seriously true. "I hope that people...

Articles 2008-07-08

Eldorado Gold Announces 2008 Second Quarter Financial Results Release Date and Conference Call

Eldorado Gold Corporation (TSX: ELD)(AMEX: EGO) will release its 2008 Second Quarter Financial Results before the market opens on Friday, August 1, 2008. Following the release, Paul N. Wright, President and Chief Executive Officer, of the Company will host a conference call at 8:30 AM PT (11:30 AM ET). The...

Articles 2008-07-07

US networks launch bidding war for the king of late-night TV

Jay Leno, popular host of 'The Tonight Show', backs away from retirement and puts NBC in a $45m bind Will Jay Leno go jaywalking? That's the multimillion-dollar question hanging over the future of America's most bankable late- night chat-show host. Five of the biggest...

Articles 2008-07-06

HEAVYWEIGHTS PROVE LIGHTWEIGHTS WITH FANS BOXING: PUNCHLINES BOXING:

IN two weeks Big John McDermott from Essex fi ghts for the right to challenge for the World Boxing Council heavyweight title. Next week a big, lumbering, nice guy called Tony Thompson from Washington DC, gets his pension cheque when he fights for the World Boxing Organisation...

Articles 2008-07-06

TRADING TANTRUMS

A smouldering rivalry between Peter Mandelson, the EU's trade commissioner, and Nicolas Sarkozy, its incoming president,has reignited with a vengeance. And this time it's embarrassingly personal. John Lichfield on a clash between two of Europe's mightiest egos Sarko versus Mandy In the blue...

Articles 2008-07-03

Eldorado's Bid for Frontier Successful

Paul N. Wright, President and Chief Executive Officer of Eldorado Gold Corporation ("Eldorado" or "we") (TSX: ELD)(AMEX: EGO), announced that as of 2:00 pm Vancouver time on July 2, 2008, approximately 157.3 million common shares of Frontier Pacific Mining Corporation ("Frontier") had been validly deposited to Eldorado's offer to purchase...

Articles 2008-07-03

Hoops world driving past U.S. women

Once, they were the surest bet in Olympic sports. The U.S. women's basketball team dominated virtually all international competition, winning world titles and Olympic gold medals, establishing a reputation as the antithesis of the selfish, ego-driven men's teams. As the Beijing Games beckon, though, the Americans' veil of...

Articles 2008-07-02

Florida's Turnpike Enterprise Adopts TransCore's eGo Plus RFID Sticker Technology for Statewide SunPass Electronic Toll Collection System, Orders 1.5 Million Tags

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Florida's Turnpike Enterprise FTE, which manages the statewide SunPass system used on 460 miles of Florida's toll highways, selects TransCore's eGo[R] Plus radio frequency identification RFID sticker tag to upgrade its current technology that has been in use since the late 1990s. The paper-thin, batteryless tags will...

Articles 2008-07-01

The Ninja Housewife

The Ninja Housewife Deborah Hamlin Langdon Street Press c/o Mill City Press 212 N 3rd Avenue, Suite 570, Minneapolis, MN 55401 9780979912054, $15.95, www.langdonstreetpress.com Life as a housewife, while not an entirely easy job, can become quite boring....

Articles 2008-07-01

Gentler failure: our children isn't learning

What's the best way to deal with chronically failing schools? In Massachusetts, apparently, the answer is to come up with a kinder word for failure. The Boston Globe reports that the phrase chronically underperforming, currently used to describe the city's worst schools, may soon be scrapped in favor of priority...

Articles 2008-07-01