John Wooden, the incomparable basketball sage, praised the women's game as emphasizing teamwork and fundamentals, but the American public clearly prefers the high-flying, above-the-rim artistry male players bring to the floor.
First, the scorecard brings together, in a single management report, many of the seemingly disparate elements of a company's competitive agenda: becoming customer oriented, shortening response time, improving quality, emphasizing teamwork, reducing new product launch times, and managing for the long term.
Emphasizing teamwork at that level will help high school coaches everywhere stress the importance of spreading the ball around and it might, ultimately, inspire us all (at least basketball fans) to be slightly more generous in our own lives.
It appears that one's cultural conceptualizations of oneself mediate this attitude, as Americans tend to focus on primary control, emphasizing autonomy, the self-made man, and personal goals above work goals, while the Japanese focus on secondary control, emphasizing teamwork, the good of the team above all else, and distinct hierarchical levels [12].
Prior studies show that there is growing international interest in managing organizational culture as a lever for healthcare improvement and in developing a culture emphasizing teamwork [ 2].
Researchers [ 6] have noted that there has been a paradigmatic shift in staffing outcome literature from "an individual to team mindset" (p 10), emphasizing teamwork and inter-professional collaboration.
The training scenarios emphasized teamwork.
The military pulverizes individualism and emphasizes teamwork.
The Poorvu Center emphasizes teamwork as well as individual participation.
Why don't schools, who are producing the prospective employees, emphasize teamwork more?
Dynegy emphasizes teamwork, while Enron is more competitive, said Ehud Ronn, director of the Center for Energy Finance Education and Research at the University of Texas.
