TransCompetition

"The deck is stacked in favor of being procompetition."

"Here are four varieties of connectedness that typify organizational dysfunction."

"All our utopias are collaborative in character. That is their appeal, and also, ultimately, their undoing."

"Call it the Big Vague."

"The Brute Cycle is what people who have been bullied do back to the bully"

"There are two psychological side effects of the Brute Cycle."

"These are the four new ways of winning."

"Disconnected organizations spawn workaholism, a grim breed of estranged loners, running out the clock and avoiding one another."

"Our sense is that plain-vanilla companies feel safer that way, disguised as one among many, like wildebeests on the veldt."

"People with higher aggression thresholds will be able to adapt to transcompetitive behavior sets without much difficulty."

"The question everyone is asking is: What will happen now that capitalist Hong Kong is fully Chinese again?"

"George Steinbrener, Prince, Ralph Nader, Kasuo Inamori."

"Place a higher priority on discovering what a win looks like for the other person."

"The customary transcompetitive toolkit is stocked with humble processes."

"There is no such thing as a guaranteed correct path to transcompetitive success."

"There are five strategies for hammering swords into transcompetitive plowshares."

"People don't compete well when their supply of confidence and self-esteem has been reduced to zero."

"The relationship between businesses and their customers has often been parasitic."

"Management's supercompetitive traits lead it to forget about corporate profit being a team sport."

"Everything we do affects everything everyone else does."

"You don't become billionaires by being wrong."

"One person can't do it anymore."