Posts Tagged ‘cooperation’

Partnerships for Competition (?)

Why do some organizations that promote competition operate as partnerships?  Hmmm.

“…current economic challenges cannot be adequately addressed without focusing on America’s competitiveness, which is intrinsically tied to the ability of Americans to effectively compete in the new global economy.” (source)
In the press release titled, The Partnership Offers Recommendations to Help the Obama White House Forge [...]

Winner Takes Pizza

In a lead-in to our school’s multi-cultural celebration (read: a Festivus for the rest of us) our students had the pleasure to listen to a rabbi’s words about tolerance and diversity. Many good points were made, some of them old favorites like the difference between the melting pot and the salad bowl, others, less obvious. [...]

Rethinking Competition – Video – Quotes – Comments

“I’m here to enlist you in helping to reshape the story about how humans and other critters get things done.” Howard Rheingold at TED Talks
(All quotes below are from video.)
Old story: “Biology is war in which only the fiercest survive. Businesses and nations succeed only by defeating, destroying and dominating competition. Politics is about your [...]

Sock Wars

We live in a competitive culture. On the cover of the Dec. 17, 2007 edition of the Wall Street Journal is an article about competitive knitting billed as “the bloodiest extreme knitting tournament”. “Sock Wars”, it goes on to say, “brings out the bloodthirsty instincts in the knitting community…” Meant to bring some levity to [...]