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#30 Margaret Heffernan: Collaboration and Competition

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Are You Creating Rivalry With Incentive Systems?

You're only going to get the value out of organizational life if people begin to feel safe with each other. The most predominant metaphor for business in the us is around competitive sports. When you add on to that systems like force ranking and om hierarchies, you foment status contests.

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