Título: A Bigger Prize: Why Competition Isn't Everything and How We do Better
Autor: Margaret Heffernan
Sinopse: The Olympics. Britain's Got Talent. The Rich List. The Nobel Prize. Everywhere you look: competition - for fame, money, attention, status. We depend on competition and expect it to identify the best, make complicated decisions easy and, most of all, to motivate the lazy and inspire the dreamers. How has that worked out so far? Rising levels of fraud, cheating, stress, inequality and political stalemates abound. Siblings won't speak to each other they're so rivalrous. Kids can't make friends because they don't want to cede their top class ranking to their fellow students. (Their parents don't want them to either.) The richest men in the world sulk when they fall a notch or two in the rich list. Doping proliferates among athletes. Auditors and fund managers go to jail for insider trading. Our dog-eat-dog culture has decimated companies, incapacitated collaborators and sown distrust. Winners take all while the desire to win consumes all, inciting panic and despair. Just as we have learned that individuals aren't rational and markets aren't efficient but went ahead operating as though they were, we now know that competition quite regularly doesn't work, the best do not always rise to the top and the so-called efficiency of competition throws off a very great deal of waste. It might be comforting to designate these 'perverse outcomes' but as aberrations mount, they start to look more like a norm. It doesn't have to be that way. Around the world, individuals and organizations are finding creative, collaborative ways to work that don't pit people against each other but support them in their desire to work together. 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. Some call that soft but it's harder than anything they've done before. They are the real winners.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “A Bigger Prize: Why Competition Isn’t Everything and How We do Better”, de Margaret Heffernan, publicado pela editora Simon & Schuster UK, em 2014 e com 476 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Simon & Schuster UK
Páginas: 476
Ano: 2014
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Linguagem: inglês
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Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora SIMON & SCHUSTER UK apresentam uma variedade de narrativas que transitam entre dramas familiares intensos, thrillers psicológicos e histórias de época com personagens complexos. O catálogo sugere um equilíbrio entre enredos mais narrativos, focados em dilemas pessoais e relações interpessoais, e obras com ritmo mais acelerado e tensão crescente, como distopias e suspense. A linguagem costuma ser acessível, porém densa em emoção e detalhes, convidando o leitor a mergulhar em conflitos internos e externos que desafiam as certezas dos protagonistas. A diversidade de temas vai da exploração da condição humana em contextos históricos até a investigação de segredos sombrios e dilemas morais contemporâneos.
