A Bigger Prize: How We Can Do Better than the Competition
- ISBN-10
- 1610392914
- ISBN-13
- 9781610392914
- Series
- A Bigger Prize
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-04-08
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Author
- Margaret Heffernan
Description
An entrepreneur, chief executive and author describes the cost of being too competitive, discussing how the pressure to win and be the best invites cheating, corruption and degradation and advocates for a more collaborative ethos in the business world. 25,000 first printing.
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- 2014-02-27
- 448 pages
- Paperback
- Simon and Schuster
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