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MIT Scientist, author, entrepreneur, geek

What happens when a company relentlessly focuses on WINNING? It encourages dominance games, which are a losing strategy. My latest: https://lnkd.in/dg_6XPmr

Two Ways to the Top, One to the Bottom; How Dominance Games Helped Microsoft Lose its Dominance

Two Ways to the Top, One to the Bottom; How Dominance Games Helped Microsoft Lose its Dominance

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A very insightful piece Andrew McAfee. I think where the "prestige game" can fall down in practice is where the wrong people achieve prestige via false information and their status breaks the virtuous cycle of learning and cooperation. But innovations this good (as you say) are certainly worth fighting for!

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