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"I watch people interact, learn what their positions are, who their best friends on Twitter are, whether they have a sense of humor. From that you can get a pretty good picture," she says.

Fed up with traditional recruiting sites and floods of irrelevant résumés, some recruiters are turning to the social network to post jobs, hunt for candidates and research applicants.

The important moral is to simply keep trying until you find a passion worth working long hours even over rough nights.

best goal a young high-school student can set is to gain a balance between a wide range of skill sets; any and all of the skills can help them succeed when they eventually find their niche.

he rampant cheating in high schools across the United States not only threatens intellectual honesty and integrity, but also the legitimacy of our economy and politics. The cheating epidemic reflects a bizarre and unhealthy obsession with testing and the obsolete industrial-era authoritarianism that takes the joy out of learning. But, ironically, so much group cheating shows us a way out by giving us a glimpse, although in a deformed version, of the cooperative modes of learning that could take over if we ever get beyond the prevalent use of standardized testing and competition-based grading.

see their sport as more than a game

vehicle for developing human capacity and learning the skills of life

Great Coaches Know Their Sport

Great Coaches Develop Players' Skills

their capacity to teach others to play the game

transmit their own knowledge and skill to those not yet proficient

believe that each athlete can learn to play the game

individual and team skills, they continually attend to the growth patterns of each team member as well as the group

have their eye on every kid, not just a favored few

analyze what the athletes do and adjust both training and the game plan as a result of what they see

precise feedback along with individualized training that enables athletes to use this feedback productively

provide high-quality practice

Turns out he was teaching me to be a good citizen, a human being who cares

Great Coaches Are Great Motivators

set clear and demanding performance goals for their players

high expectations elicit maximum effort from team members and result in maximum growth.

understand and appreciate human variance

tailor practice drills to the individual, but they also know that individuals are motivated in different ways

study their players to figure out what will encourage each one to persevere

realize that sideline drills are less motivating than the game itself, so they ensure that players grasp the link between drills and the game and that everyone gets to play the game to test their developing skills

fun into hard work

culture of success is more motivating than a culture of winning

invest more heavily in celebrating the more attainable goal of individual growth

Great Coaches Are Team Builders

orient everyone to a common vision

care for one another and play to one another's strengths

respectfully toward each athlete, they inspire respect among team members

address interpersonal problems on a team as vigorously as problems with skills execution or a game pla