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How Parents Teach Children to Tidy Up Toys
The Wall Street Journal To keep the toys tidy, Susan Lutz Klauda finally turned to her Excel spreadsheet skills. Dr. Klauda, a 35-year-old Washington, D.C., education researcher, decided she was “fed up with the toys
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The Surprising Problem of Too Much Talent
Scientific American: Whether you’re the owner of the Dallas Cowboys or captain of the playground dodge ball team, the goal in picking players is the same: Get the top talent. Hearts have been broken, allegiances
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Geteiltes Leid ist doppeltes Leid (Shared pain is double suffering)
Sueddeutsche: Geteiltes Leid ist halbes Leid? Im Gegenteil. Der angenudelte Spruch sollte dringend eine Auffrischung erfahren und künftig korrekt so lauten: Geteiltes Leid ist doppeltes Leid. Gut möglich, dass dieser Vorschlag die Zustimmung der drei
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Study: If Your Team Has Too Many Superstars, Performance Will Suffer
Entrepreneur: When hiring employees, conventional wisdom dictates that one should always try and select the superstars, those men and women who excel at their job so thoroughly they put the average human to shame. After
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Better Teamwork Comes From Facing Challenges
From basketball to brain surgery, people can accomplish more working together as a team than they ever could by themselves. As Aristotle famously put it, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
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Shared Pain Can Act As A Social Glue: Study
Gizmodo: What can make for a strong sense of group loyalty? – Pride in the identity and achievements of your group? Commitment to the work? or the mutual attraction existing among group members? A new
