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A greater choice of courses, and, of course, better football teams.

But in single-sex schools teachers can tailor lessons to boys' learning style, letting them move around the classroom and getting them to compete in teams to prevent boredom, wrote the study's author, Abigail James, of the University of Virginia.

Across the country, 285 emergencymanagement teams are devoted to crisis control.

Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on 开始 it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.

Companies are abandoning conventional functional departments and organising employees into cross-disciplinary teams that focus on particular products, problems or customers.

Deloitte argues that anew organisational form is on the rise: a network of teams is replacing the conventional hierarchy.

Employees formed "storm chaser teams" and competed in storm-themed educational exercises to earn various rewards.

Hackman who died in 2013 noted that teams are hindered by problems of co-ordination and motivation that chip away at the benefits of collaboration.

high-flyers who are forced to work in teams may be undervalued and free-riders empowered.

his solution was to learn something from the rebels it was fighting: decentralising authority to self-organising teams.

However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organisations increasingly use "team" as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.

However, organisations need to learn something bigger than how to manage teams better: they need to be in the habit of asking themselves whether teams are the best tools for the job.

In a study of 120 teams of senior executives, he discovered that less than 10% of their supposed members agreed on who exactly was on the team.

In his book, Team of Teams, General Stanley McChrystal describe show the army's hierarchical structure hindered its operations during the early stages of the Iraq war.

Loosely managed teams can become hotbeds of distraction—employees routinely complain that they can't get their work done because they are forced to spend too much time in meetings or compelled to work in noisy offices.

Profound changes in the workforce are making teams trickier to manage.

Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross functional teams.

Teams are as old as civilisation, of course: even Jesus had 12 co-workers.

Teams have become the basic building-blocks of organisations.

Teams work best if their members have a strong common culture.

The Cleveland Clinic, a hospital operator, has reorganised its medical staff into teams to focus on particular treatment areas; consultants, nurses and others collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality and rank.

The fashion for teams is also spreading from the usual corporate suspects such as GE and IB to some more unusual ones.

The fashion for teams is driven by a sense that the old way of organising people is too rigid for both the modern market place and the expectations of employees.

The least that can be concluded from this research is that companies need to think harder about managing teams.

These teams are gaining more power to run their own affairs.

These teams are trained annually using a framework known as the three Ps: people, property, product.

They need to immunise teams against group-think: Hackman argued that the best ones contain"deviants" who are willing to do something that may be upsetting to others.

They need to keep teams small and focused: giving in to pressure to be more "inclusive" is a guarantee of dysfunction.

They need to rid their minds of sentimentalism: the most successful teams have leaders who are able to set an overall direction and take immediate action.

In recent years, teams of workers dispatched by Google have been working hard to make digital copies of books.

He hoped that these added effects would encourage his audience to support local sports teams.

He had also planned the content of his speech to focus on the teams with the best records, the ones that had won the most games in the last season

In a division of electronic engineers, who were designing equipments so advanced that they work in teams of up to 150, co-workers and managers were asked to nominate the standouts- the stars in productivity and effectiveness

Casey, an expert in this field, suggests that the cooperation process within teams must be organized, promoted and managed.

It's no wonder these companies employ teams of people focused on engineering their services to be as engaging as possible.

Teams of four students make a video illustrating a math problem and its real-world application.

When teams consist of experienced employees from hierarchical organizations, who have been conditioned to traditional organizational culture, cooperation may not occur naturally, it may need to be created.

Yet, when you look at their numbers or percentages on the revenue-generating sports teams of football and basketball, they make up well into 50 and 60 percent of those teams.

Another trend is off-site or virtual management, where teams of people linked by e-mail and the Internet work on projects from their own houses.

Much of the work in today's world is accomplished in teams.

Parents should actively urge their children to take advantage of the opportunity to join sports teams.

Some argue that humans and machines can coexist as long as they work in teams—yet that is not possible unless machines share the goals of humans.

Teams of four, dressed in a variety of strange and funny clothes, roll a complete cheese along a 50-metre course.

That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their vacations, we met every day and practiced passing and kicking the football.

They did well this season and so entered a tournament, which normally was only for more skilled club teams.

This led to some painful experiences on Saturday as they played against teams better trained.

Dr Kroo points out that the aircraft could be separated by several nautical miles, and would not be in the intimate groupings favoured by display teams like the Red Arrows.