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Updating the Metaphor
Dear Everyone: Please stop referring to matters of business and organizations competing with one another as “War”, and please drop the metaphorical reference to winning market share as “killing the...
View ArticleWhen Losing Makes You Feel Like a Loser
As a student of character, I pay attention to how people “do competition” – winning and losing at work. I’m not tracking who wins and who loses, but how people deal with the inevitable setbacks that...
View ArticleBoys Will Be Men: Competition, Rank and Status at Work
“Competition is good for our culture,” the General Manager told me. Yet, I was looking at some culture data, corroborated through personal interviews, that indicated competition was good for some...
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