2009年5月30日 星期六

overreact, joint, joint performance

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).

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