overreact, joint, joint performance0 Chen Jian brings Zhou into the light, offering a nuanced portrait of his complex life as a revolutionary, a master diplomat, and a man with his own vision and ...

Chen Jian brings Zhou into the light, offering a nuanced portrait of his complex life as a revolutionary, a master diplomat, and a man with his own vision and ...

A Company Is More Than Its CEO
The job of the CEO is a nuanced one, but a key trick to effective management, Drucker felt, is to "make people capable of joint performance"

He spent too much money in a joint that exist for that purpose and for no other.


Overreaction kills the fun along with the flu

overreact

intr.v., -act·ed, -act·ing, -acts.
To react with unnecessary or inappropriate force, emotional display, or violence.
overreaction o'ver·re·ac'tion n.
overreactive o'ver·re·ac'tive adj.


JOINT
adj.

1. Shared by or common to two or more: our joint presence; a joint income-tax return.
2. Sharing with another or others: a joint tenant.
3. Formed or characterized by cooperation or united action: joint military maneuvers.
4. Involving both houses of a legislature: a joint session of Congress.
5. Law. Regarded as one legal body; united in identity of interest or liability.
6. Mathematics. Involving two or more variables.

joint (PLACE)
noun [C]
1 INFORMAL a bar or restaurant which serves cheap food and drink:
We had lunch at a hamburger joint and then went to see a movie.

2 SLANG a place where people go for entertainment and which often has a bad reputation:
He owned several bars in the city and ran an illegal gambling joint.
We arrived at the club just before midnight and the joint was already jumping (= busy).