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  • As such it is difficult to develop team-spirit, and communication throughout the business suffers email, by its very nature – informal & quick – is not a good delegation & planning communication tool.

    Does Your Workplace Waste Time With Meetings? | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • Yes, even the giants as Jeff Thomson, except the West-Indian champions, had not as much unity and team-spirit with their team-mates, as Pakistani cricketers have always had – and we can see it in their bowling, at least.

    The PAK Factor 2008

  • Joyce, we preserved enough of team-spirit to prevent a complete breakdown, however high-handed I appeared: and I had a reserve of confidence to carry the whole thing, if need be, on my shoulders.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • We must therefore seek to give the spiritual life a vigorous corporate character; to make it "good form" for the school, and to use the team-spirit in the choir and the guild as well as in the cricket field.

    The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day Evelyn Underhill 1908

  • We know how it emerges in hero-worship or in ardent friendships; how it reinforces the social instinct and produces the team-spirit, the intense devotion to the interests of his own gang or group which is rightly prominent in the life of many boys.

    The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day Evelyn Underhill 1908

  • There is also a vacancy in the England set-up for a player to lead the team in the singing of patriotic songs including 'Jerusalem', 'Rule Britannia' and 'Two World Wars and one World Cup'; as well as attempting to throttle any player who doesn't want to take part, using team-spirit as a pretext.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Shortly after the team-spirit fest began, the players learned they'd face temptation for the second time this season.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • I have no opinion on Shoaib-Saania marriage .... infact, I don't like Shoaib the cricketer (a spoiled brat and team-spirit spoiler) and Saania (no great shakes in the tennis world). wrote:

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

  • The 2008 FA Cup winners were effectively condemned to relegation after being handed a nine-point penalty for going into administration, but boss Avram Grant has somehow managed to foster a strong team-spirit in the face of extreme adversity.

    The Age News Headlines 2010

  • Shoaib the cricketer (a spoiled brat and team-spirit spoiler) and Saania (no great shakes in the tennis world). wrote:

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

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