A Bigger Prize: When No One Wins Unless Everyone Wins
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (968 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1471100758 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
They are the real winners, sharing a bigger prize.. Auditors and fund managers go to jail for insider trading. Some call that soft but it's harder than anything they've done before. Children burn out at school. Doping proliferates among athletes. Siblings won't speak to each other. The Rich List. While the rest of the world remains mired in pitiless sniping, racing to the bottom, the future belongs to the people and companies who have learned that they are greater working together than against one another. But, as Margaret Heffernan shows in this eye-opening look at competition, competition regularly produces just what we don't want: rising levels of fraud, cheating, stress, inequality and political stalemate. Being top seems to be everything - but what is it costing all of us? We depend on competition and expect it to identify the best, make complicated decisions easy and to motivate the lazy and inspire the dreamers. Winners seem to take all while the desire to win consumes all, inciting panic and despair. We now know that competition often doesn't work, that the best do not always rise to the top and the so-called efficiency of competition creates a great deal of waste. The Nobel Prize.Everywhere you look: competition - for fame, money, attention, status. The Olympics. X-Factor. So what a
She is a visiting professor and Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Bath. . She writes a regular column for Real Business and the Huffington Post. She is the author of The Naked Truth and How She Does It, and Wilful Blindness. She worked in BBC Radio as a television producer, before leaving to run the trade association IPPA. She then joined CMGI where she ran, bought and sold leading Internet businesses. She returned to the US where she worked on public affa
She then joined CMGI where she ran, bought and sold leading Internet businesses. She is a visiting professor and Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Bath. She writes a regular column for Real Business and the Huffington Post. . She returned to the US where she worked on public affair campaigns and with software companies trying to break into multimedia. She worked in BBC Radio as a television producer, before leaving to run the trade association IPPA. About the Author MARGARET HEFFERNAN was born in Texas, raised in Holland and educated at Cambridge University. She is the author of The Naked Truth and How She Does It, and Wilful Blindness
"A bigger prize" according to Strategic Consultant. Margaret outlines the pros and cons of competition and organisational behaviour and stresses the need for critical and creative thinking. She raises some good points.. "Boring" according to Eddie Mann. The Author has a simple theme which she proceeds to present in many different ways. Sometimes she just goes on and on.. A great premise. Repeated often. A thoroughly researched book and beautifully written, but as the same point is made again and again and again, I've ended up abandoning it two thirds of the way through as it was becoming laborious. I wish it had come to a section on a way forward a little earlier. I may skip the final brief, but more promising, chapter. A shame as the intentions are laudable. Read with patience.