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...authors harness decades of their research and conclude that external relationships are just as important as internal ones in predicting team success. A lot of the time that a team spends building trust and a collegial spirit, they find, would be better spent scouting for outside sources of new ideas, generating enthusiasm for what the team is doing among upper managers and communicating with everyone the group's work touches, from customers to tech support...
...unlikely that Carl will allow his flagship to deteriorate in quality, since he spent years sweating the development details. A fourth-generation builder, the inspiration for Viking occurred when Carl was constructing his own home in Greenwood in the early 1980s. His wife Margaret wanted a gas range like the Chambers brand she had grown up with: a hulking cast-iron and porcelain beast weighing more than 500 lbs. (225 kg). Chambers was long gone, supplanted by flimsier ranges that offered utility sans style. So Carl decided to build his own, inspired by another contractor whose high-quality cooking utensils...
Driven by her evangelical belief that art can not only beautify but also pacify, Golden, now 51, has spent the past 20 years enlisting as many communities as possible--mostly schoolkids teamed with artists but at times other groups, like cops or prisoners--in planning and painting the murals. A decade ago, she spun off from the Anti-Graffiti Network and started the Mural Arts Program, an organization inspired by F.D.R.'s Works Progress Administration that, as one former student says, is pro-art rather than antigraffiti. "Race, crime and violence, immigration, gentrification--I think it's our responsibility...
Monica Mathieu, 17, spent a recent summer day inside an Olney High School rec room painting a panel for an upcoming mural. She'd ordinarily be sitting at home watching TV, Mathieu said, but on this day she was giddy about the pending arrival of a group of Irish students who have been collaborating with the Philadelphia teens on a mural called Common Ground. As Mathieu talked about raising money for a trip to Dublin to work on a project next summer, she was asked how two such seemingly disparate groups overcame the challenges in creating such...
...they borrowed against a value for their house that turns out to be fictitious and spent the money on ephemeral things like vacations, as the commercials urge them to do, that was foolish--in some cases, maybe even tragically foolish. People want the government to do something, and presidential candidates are beavering away at plans. But any plan that would prevent home prices from declining would be foolishness squared. Genuine tragedy deserves sympathy and help, even if it is the result of your own foolishness. But when we do not even guarantee basic health care, it would be nuts...