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Oscar Pistorius: Born to run: #FT

How Google Can Beat Facebook Without Google Plus - The Atlantic

Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Used TV? - The Atlantic

Eurovision fans, please do not vote for us!

Google Gets Smarter via @NewYorker

Financial officers influence IT spending - - The Connected Business

Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 12, William Faulkner:

Eureka! When a Blow to the Head Creates a Sudden Genius - The Atlantic

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Côte d’Or treasure: #FT

The conception of logic as a neutral umpire of debate also fails to withstand scrutiny, for similar reasons. Principles of logic can themselves be debated, and often are, just like principles of any other science. For example, one principle of standard

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Six Rules for Dining Out - Magazine - The Atlantic

RT @freakologie: “Cara sinistra, meglio gli ogm, il biologico è di destra” via @linkiesta

RT @csmonitor: 5 stories about life in Paris

When we set out to document the behavior of teams that “click,” we noticed we could sense a buzz in a team even if we didn’t understand what the members were talking about. That suggested that the key to high performance lay not in the content of a team’s discussions but in the manner in which it was communicating. Yet little of the research on team building had focused on communication. Suspecting it might be crucial, we decided to examine it more deeply.

For our studies, we looked across a diverse set of industries to find workplaces that had similar teams with varying performance. Ultimately, our research included innovation teams, post-op wards in hospitals, customer-facing teams in banks, backroom operations teams, and call center teams, among others.

We equipped all the members of those teams with electronic badges that collected data on their individual communication behavior—tone of voice, body language, whom they talked to and how much, and more. With remarkable consistency, the data confirmed that communication indeed plays a critical role in building successful teams. In fact, we’ve found patterns of communication to be the most important predictor of a team’s success. Not only that, but they are as significant as all the other factors—individual intelligence, personality, skill, and the substance of discussions—combined.

RT @InfoQ: The Exact Science of Communication Patterns

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Internazionale: Economia. Il problema con Marc Andreessen. http://t.co/FOqWS6Rs

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Why we follow football: #FT

Financial Times, 8:09pm Friday April 27th, 2012

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The five myths about contemporary classical music | Music | The Guardian (via Instapaper)

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RT @Phastidio: Francia, crisi di un modello

Google's chief Java architect: it's 'likely' I copied Sun code found in Android, 'I'm sorry' if I did via @verge

MUSIC REVIEW: Young Pianist at Home in the Past and the Present
Jenny Q Chai performed varied works in a piano recital at Zankel Hall on Thursday night.
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NYTimes: How Exercise Could Lead to a Better Brain

Will France vote bling or bland?: #FT

So, what does ‘The Scream’ mean?: #FT