The global sales of notebooks and netbooks combined have grown at a rate of above 25% annually over the past few years with an increasing consumer shift from static desktops to mobile notebooks.

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In the book, Edmondson makes the case for managers to shift from holding a static view of teamwork to this dynamic one.

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Education has to shift from imparting a static package of knowledge to a dynamic goal of being able to create knowledge and deploy skills to new situations, whatever they turn out to be.

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Hence education has to shift from imparting a static package of knowledge to a dynamic goal of being able to create knowledge and deploy skills to new situations, whatever they turn out to be.

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On a typical graveyard shift, 60 technicians, wearing white lab coats to prevent static electricity from gumming up computer components, hunch over kaput keyboards and screens, fixing them with screwdrivers and color analyzers.

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Note that all this counts only the so-called static gains from trade: the effects of a once-and-for-all shift in the pattern of production and consumption.

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