She waited 18 months before really starting to build an effective team around her.

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As we help Member States in their efforts to achieve development goals, the United Nations must act as an effective team.

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For the past few months, diplomacy has focused on a plan, overseen by Kofi Annan, a former UN secretary-general, to negotiate an effective ceasefire under a team of monitors and to set up an interim unity government.

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"The best advice they could follow is to build the team into being an effective, money-making machine again, " said Andrew Zimbalist, a noted sports economist and Smith College professor.

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To be an effective manager and build a successful corporate team executives cannot simply put the most talented people in the room or try to develop the most efficient business processes.

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Emotional Intelligence not only works to bring a team together as a more functional and effective unit, but also takes advantage of an often overlooked component to team leadership that will cause organizations deficient in it to crumble.

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For something to be an effective deterrent, then, it has to hurt the team.

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Dr Schulte explained the team decided to carry out the study in order to identify effective indicator species that offered an insight into the health of the region's environment.

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As any successful serial entrepreneur can tell you, an all-star team (or even a team with one lone shining star) can be a powerfully effective selling point.

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