Furthermore, explains Surowiecki, there was no correlation between the performance of the smartest person in the group and the performance of that group.
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Performance Food Group is a food distributor to restaurants.
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The company also got rid of the distribution curve and individual performance bonuses, instead giving everyone an 8% salary bump, as well as group performance bonuses and stock options.
The researchers found that, as a whole, the WoW group saw a greater increase in cognitive performance than the control group, though improvements tended to vary on a person-to-person basis.
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Many of the factors you might think would be predictive of group performance were not.
Hillary Rosen, president the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), a performance-rights group, disagrees.
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Within 5 years, though, stock values regress and reflect the average group performance.
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"We have made good, solid progress and the performance of the group is improving, " said chief executive Sir CK Chow.
As a teenager he tried to get noticed by attending the performance of a group called the John Spencer Blues Explosion.
If you bought the BIK, the ETF for Brazil, Russia, India and China, the performance for that group of markets blended out to 7.5%.
Collective performance of the group, weighted by December 2007 assets: --37%.
In South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai read a passage about the link between water and education, followed by a seafront performance by musical group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
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He added a reunion performance by his former group The Faces in Hurtwood, Surrey, would also be dedicated to the singer.
The performance of Kraft Foods Group, which went public in September, was omitted from the results, leaving a portfolio of nine stocks.
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His experience leads him to believe that raising the performance of one year group, as the school has done this year, is the key to a continuing rise in standards in years to come.
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The Australian Industry Group's performance of manufacturing index rose to 45.6 in February from 40.2 in January.
The group dedicated the performance to the victims and survivors of the attacks.
The Australian Industry Group's performance of manufacturing index rose to a reading of 45.6 in February, from 40.2 in January.
As the hearing dragged on, employees and alumni fired text messages, emails and instant messages back and forth about the group's performance.
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The update did not give any information on the wider group's performance or results for the UK business, but Barclays said it would provide a full third-quarter business update as originally scheduled at the end of the month.
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