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Success

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

Humans success stories are dominated by cooperation between specialists with a shared goal, while human failures are dominated by competition.
Even though this observation is easy to defend, strategic organisation of the UK does not reflect it. The government itself is disabled by the competition inherent in politics. From the start, education teaches us to be competitive at an individual level and rates us on that ability. The emphasis should instead be on reward for cooperation. We should be celebrating and rewarding the ability to work as a specialist member of a team with a shared strategic goal.
Change for the better in the UK should be predicated on this change in emphasis. The current style of government owes much to its competitive animal roots, it does not reflect what we have learned of success as humans.