Group negotiations are a fact of managerial life, yet the outcomes of teamwork are highly unpredictable.
Dave Percival, Coordinator of National Marriage Week, said: "Living together and marriage are increasingly seen as the same by the public, yet the outcomes are radically different.
Baird notes Australia is also instructive to US-based companies as a country in which many organisations and the government offer gender-neutral parental leave, yet the outcomes still break along traditional gender lines.
Yet the outcomes of their bonus decisions are remarkably different: over the years, Len's female employees have consistently received a greater share of the bonus pool, compared with Cal's female employees.
In the U.S. we spend more per capita than any other industrialized country, yet the outcomes are some of the worst in the world, with the highest levels of patient dissatisfaction.
Vermont's special education system is expensive — on average, schools spend nearly $22,000 extra on every student with a disability, which is estimated to be 1 1/2 to 2 times more than the national average — and yet the outcomes are abysmal.
