U.S. swimming and gymnastic teams, by contrast, keep their athletes in pre-Olympics camps, Mr. Logan said, to rest, prepare and build team spirit.
But if you use tough times to recruit the best talent, be smarter in your marketing and build team loyalty, you will come out ahead of the pack when the downturn ends.
While employees may prefer being home, these high-tech innovators are trying to create a home-like environment in the workplace to build team spirit and to make room for the synergy that comes with camaraderie and brainstorming.
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He says this selfish streak is exacerbated by the fast turnover of commercial climbing expeditions, which often meet for the first time just a couple of weeks before a summit attempt, meaning there is little opportunity to build team morale.
The question you should be asking is not if you need to build a team, but rather how to build the right team.
The entrepreneur has an idea of what they want, but no ability to do it themselves, so they go somewhere offshore and build a team and build out their product without spending a single dollar.
We helped the company build the team from the ground up, we helped hired the CEO.
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"I want to build a team, to make things happen rather than wait for them to happen, " said Thordarson.
At the moment they're just re-cycling players and not doing too well, so they should try and build a team.
I'd like to think I learned how to build a team that ships world-class design running atop solid, stable code.
But putting in the effort to build a team is only effective if the tasks and projects assigned are actually executed.
The refinancing made it easier for Wilf to hang on until the public agreed to build his team a new stadium.
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He has spared no expense to build the team, but financially sustainable success seems a long way off, if not downright unattainable.
Passion will ignite the same intensity in the others who join you as you build a team to succeed in this endeavor.
The objective, Regier stressed, is not to simply build a team that can make the playoffs, but rather one that can succeed in them.
The City's Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge allowed us to build a team around this vision and share it with the rest of the community.
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The result of this system is that getting the first pick in the draft has become the indisputably best way to build a team.
Woodson said he's trying to build a team around a well-balanced offense, with no dominant scorer (sorry, Carmelo) and a defense that consists of "dirty work, " he said.
"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.
Leverage an inside sales approach, which is to say, build a team that sells primarily over the phone, using a remote meeting tool such as Webex, Go-to-Meeting or JoinMe.
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"The panel and I all agreed that Simon was the right person to lead the fight against crime and build the team in Dyfed Powys for the future, " he said.
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And, following the appointment of Wright as manager for the first time in January 2002, he helped build a team that took City back into the Football League in April 2004.
Can they build a team and do they have an agenda, which will be relevant, not even today, 2005 but in 2009, when we actually will be fighting a general election.
The Nuggets landed a bevy of young players, trade exemptions and draft picks they've used to retool their roster, and the Knicks got a bona fide superstar to build a team around.
Instead, Rivera and Pettitte will open the year as lonely icons, trying to build a team from disparate parts and squeeze one more run out of what's left of this tired, beat-up crew.
In a note to UMG employees, UMG leader Anand Chandrasekher said that Bell will help build and lead a team to build breakthrough smartphone reference designs to accelerate Intel Architecture into the market.
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Once qualified, both coaches understood that they should build their team around a player of exceptional ability who was ready to give his all to erase the memories of the previous World Cup.
The owner insists that cost-cutting in January was required to "build a team for the future and not just for a season" as several older players were released or dropped out of the team.
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You cannot build a team remotely.
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