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A Bigger Prize

How We Can Do Better Than the Competition

Margaret Heffernan . 2014 . 658.04 HEF . Beaverton Lib

Part I . Personal Best

• p003 ch01 Oh, Brother!

• p014 ref. 7 p331 Mark N. Bing 1999 "Hypercompetitiveness in Academia: Achieving Criterion-Related Validity From Item Context Specificity"

• p015 personality is biology, parental attachment, social support, culture, and experience
• p016 family dinners give-and-take, cut-and-thrust, passionate debate
• p017 Parents with mediation training allowed severe disputes, children became creative problem solvers

• p017 Psychological de-identification refers to the process of consciously distancing oneself from certain aspects of the self—such as emotions, thoughts, roles, or behaviors—to gain perspective

• p017 Frances Schachter children become different in order not to fight.

• p020 Wilbur and Orville Wright argued fiercely and often, benefiting their project

• p022 Frans de Waal showed chimps dislike unfairness, reject unequal sharing.

• p024 ch02 Making the Grade

• p024 Charles Shubert MIT

• p027 Amy Chua Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother "self-mocking memoir"

• p028 US youth unemployment rate, 26% unemployed age 25-24, lower wages in 2013 than in 2000

• p029 Bright Kids $$$ tutoring for placement exams

• p030 No Child Left Behind Race to the Top

• p030 focus on reading and math, not science, literature, history, civics, and the arts
• p031 students promised awards for drawing stopped drawing without rewards

• p032 Joy Paul Guilford Convergent "one correct answer" thinking versus divergent thinking

• p032 kill childhood creativity
  • (1) work for expected reward
  • (2) focus pupils on expected evaluation
  • (3) plenty of surveillance
  • (4) setting up restricted choices
  • (5) creating competitive situations

• p033 C. J. Skender accounting teacher at Duke and UNC

  • sees the best in his students
  • climate of safety where mistakes are part of learning
• p033 worrier students good at homework, warrior students good at exams
• p036 rankings pit students against each other
• p036 people intensely motivated by choice of when and how to work, take ownership
• p037 the cost of motivating top 1 percent is demotivation of other 99 percent
• p037 college entrance résumé padding
• p039 American student debt over a trillion dollars
  • 4 million graduates per year, 10 year payoff, $25K per graduate?

• p040 Ron Wyden Know Before You Go

• p040 Adderall illicit college student performance enhancer

• p040 Stuyvesant High School 80% of students cheat rather than waste time on disliked subjects

• p041 95% of US students cheat in one form or another

• p041 Turnitin plagiarism detection software

• p043 https://wetakeyourclass.com https://boostmygrade.com/

• p043 students of author's entrepreneurship course: "how would I grade them?"
• p044 learning for rewards not useful for future
• p045 Harvard Art|Science Team (?)

• p045 St. Joseph Singapore

• p047 Teach Less, Learn More

• p047 Blackawton bees Biology Letters 2011 April 23

• p049 PISA Program for International Student Assessment

• p049 Germany scored below OECD average, achievement more correlated with family socioeconomic status, students ranked and sorted into three tracks, limiting achievement
• p050 top performing schools do better job of educating everybody
• p050 Luxembourg most expensive schools, ranked near last in achievement
• p050 Margaret Thatcher says nations depend on a talented few
• p050 Finns explicitly rejected this, couldn't afford to waste any human talent
• p051 no standardized tests until eighth grade; written assessments but not grades
• p051 Finland not small, heterogeneous, fastest diversifying in Europe
• p052 We are such a small country, we cannot afford to lose any child
• p052 All Finn teachers must have master's degree, rated more highly than doctors, architects, and lawyers. Free to determine how they teach.
• p053 very little central government interference, schools and teachers autonomous
• p056 money only 20% of outcome, streaming and pay incentives ineffective
• p056 Finland 4th most scientific publications of the OECD countries, above average patents per capita

• p058 ch03 The Morning After

• p058 Olympics: Americaarn women outperformed the rest of the world AND American men
• p059 Male scientists decided women are different, female scientists found no cognitive or developmental differences
• p059 women's competitiveness unaffected by menstrual cycle
• p060 competitive women performed as well as men. Most women preferred to not compete
• p062-63 nattering about comparing penis size

• p063 "all m/f I interviewed" insisted on financial contribution

• p067 Helen Gurley Brown ... marriage is always the end game
• p070 "Beth" ... no job, no money, no baby -- what a loser!
• p071 David and Sarah bickered and kept score, he had affair at work, they separated
• p071 adultery is a form of competition
• p072 Nathaniel Blumenthal/Branden and Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum / Alice O'Connor / Ayn Rand
• p073 NB: "You can't love someone and compete with them" "Love isn't winning an argument"
• p073 "... we all benefit from the work that we all do"
• p074 "marriage shares a lot of properties of collaboration: you share the wings"
• p074 "... it must be terrifying for young men when this apparition turns up looking like nothing they have ever looked before!"

• p079 ch04 Angry Birds

• p080 Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe "pecking order"

• p081 Kristine Bonnevie mentor

• p081 Schjelderup-Ebbe copied but unrecognized
• p082 best-liked usually not top-ranked

• p083 sociologist Stanford Gregory low 0.5 kHz hum conveys social st atus

  • p084 Spectral Analysis of Candidates' Nonverbal Vocal Communication F₀ band <500Hz signals social dominance, won presidential election popular vote from 1960 to 2000

• p085 Pecking order: highest for smoking teenage girls
• p085 stress lowest for "middle" girls, highest afraid of losing, lowest afraid of dropping out entirely
• p086 starving/thin "feminine": heart attacks, liver failure, death
  • anorexic death 5-10% in 10 years, 18-20% in 20 years, only 30-40% recover

• p086 Interlochen Choate Cranbrook

• p087 dark side of win/lose empowerment "then losing must all be your fault"

• p087 Unplugged Multco Offsite 2010 Ryan van Cleve 60 hr/wk video games

• p088 computer games designed to exploit hunger for rewards and status

• p088 compulsion loops

• p089 hedonic treadmill

• p091 Donors want recognition, naming rights, peerage in England

• p092 Geert Hofstede power distance

• p093 power distance related to health and well-being

• p095 Marianne Jenningssteeper hierarchy leads to ethical collapse in organizations

• p095 game-changers go unheard

• p096 Geert Hofstede et alCultures and Organizations 2010 at PSU, $2.77+3.25 used

• p097 Will Rogers invented term "trickle down"; not true, lower tax rates reduce growth and increase inequality

• p097 The Spirit Level

• p098 king of Sweden unable to pay store with check but no ID, fellow citizens identify him with coins

• p099 TechShop

• p099 MiracleBrace

• p101 crowdsourcing sharing in return for great feedback and contributions

• p102 Bill Gore

• p102 Gore-Tex

• p103 PTFE

• p104 Terri Kelly

• p105 Morning Star

• p108 Nucor Steel

• p109 First Rand eBucks

• p110 Karl Rabeder Credot

• p112 ch05 Keeping Score

  • sports
• p124 Single US football player 1000 blows to head per season, 75% chance of concussions
• p124 NFL linemen 52% greater heart disease risk than general population
• p124 97% overweight, 50% obese

• p125 6 suicides, dementia, chronic traumatic encephalopathy

• p125 second most dangerous sport cheerleading; risky stunts, untrained coaches, hard surfaces
• p128 former NFL suicide rate six times average, divorce rate 60-70%

• p129 Don Catlin developed tests for street drugs

• p130 14% of athletes use banned substances, 2% are caught
• p131 Sports 2% of GDP

• p131 2004 BALCO Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative supplied performance-enhancing drugs

• p131 Victor Conte

• p132 Travis Tygart

• p134 Steven Baddeley

• p135 Travis Tygart True Sport report

• p137 Mike Brearley

• p138 The Apprentice

• p140 CHATTERJEE, A. et HAMBRICK, D.C. (2007). It’s All about Me: Narcissistic CEOs and their Effects on Company Strategy and Performance. Administrative Science Quarterly, (52), pp. 351-386. (PSU, OHSU)
  • "prominent" CEOs, grandiose strategy, volatile stock performance

• p141 Steve Rattner not the Tektronix Steve Ratther

• p142 akin to a rooster taking credit for the sunrise
• p142 worship the top, infantilize the rest

• p143 fatigue -> biased judgement and rigid thinking

  • Heffernan, Margaret . Willful Blindness . Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril . Central 153.7 H4613w 2011

• p144 Companies do not have a legal obligation to prioritize stock price

• p144 Air Products Inc. v. Airgas Inc., directors can ignore current stock price in favor of long-term interests
• p145 # of publicly listed companies declines 40, life expectancy of Fortune 500 companies down from 75 years a century ago to 15 years today

• p145 Lynn Stout The Shareholder Value Myth . Multco Central 658.155 S8895s 2012

• p145 performance-related pay does not deliver superior performance

• p145 Marianne JenningsThe Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse Multco Offsite

• p146 CMGI

• p147 Good to Great book 2001 of 60 companies, at least 11 have gone from bad to worse

• p147 Gripple subsidiary Loadhog

• p150 Arup structural engineering

Part II . The Case of the Purdue Chickens

• p157 ch06 Only the Impresarios Survive

• p160 Carl Djerassi oral contraceptive, science-in-fiction novels

• p161 science stalled by rivalry rather than cooperation
• p165 chicken flocks more productive than breeding for super-hens

• p166 every principal investigator produces 10 PhDs, who must find a postdoc position ... "Ponzi scheme"

  • specious argument. Almost all PhDs should disperse into non-collegiate jobs - teaching, engineering, lab work, leading teams serving the other 8 billion of us, so we can generate the wealth that pays for colleges and universities and research institutes

• p167 sharing at conferences -> plagiarism

• p168 Matthew effect cumulative advantage

• p168 "coined by Keith Stanovich" (1950)

  • wikipedia says Robert K. Merton (1910) and Harriet Anne Zuckerman (1937)

• p169 Kary Mullis PCR 1993 Nobel

• p170-2 Jan Hendrik Schön fraudulent papers

• p173 Scott S. Reuben fraudulent pain research

• p173 Hwang Woo-Suk fake stem cell research

• p174 fraudsters almost always pleasers, delivering what's wanted, pre-defined success
• p174 retracted research still cited 24 years later

  • Korpela 2010

• p175 Ferric Fang "the more important the journal, the higher the number of retractions"

• p176 Fang: The US spends twice as much on beer compared to R&D, lowest since the 1960s

• p178 scoreboards, winning at all costs, ethical shortcuts
• p179 HBOS - Halifax Bank of Scotland (email from author Heffernan)

• p179 Juliet Schor The Overworked American PSU

  • Americans work longer, sleep less, perform badly

• p180 B-of-A intern Moritz Erhardt worked extreme long hours and died. He was also hyper-ambitious and by some accounts epileptic. In the US, perhaps 2600 21-year-olds die violently (including vehicle accidents) per year; motor vehicle keys are 1000 times as lethal as keyboard keys.

• p181 McKinsey touted forced rankings

• p182 McKinsey’s Dirty War

• p182 Jackie Witt (?) former Intel, forced rankings focus on now, not the future

• p185 Uri Alon improv theater How to Build a Motivated Research Group

• p186 Cathy O’Neil mathbabe

• p186 Scooped AgainUri Alon

• p188 David Ring safer hospitals where errors are openly acknowledged and swiftly fixed

• p189 Andreas Gruentzig Boston Scientific Balloon Catheter

• p190 ref 39 John Abele "Bringing Minds Together", Harvard Business Review (July-August 2011).
• p198 Groups with members better at reading faces are more productive, teams with more women did better too.

• p204 Mondragon cooperative

Part III . The Business of Winning

• p209 ch07 Clone Wars

• p209 Andy Hildebrand Auto-Tune

• p210 considered a form of cheating by many music lovers

• p211 Jay-ZDeath of AutoTune

• p212 audio Botox

• p212 Robert McKeeStory

• p212 Charlie Kaufman film Adaption

• p213 studio head of production average tenure 18 months

• p213 Epagogix algorithm estimates film financial success

• p217 Hedonic Analysis of Arthritis Drugs more expensive clones more dangerous and less effective

• p217 pharmaceutical industry reluctance to share data ... with patients, doctors, and funders

• p218 Antibiotics resistance 'as big a risk as terrorism

• p220 Narrative Science data storytelling

• p220 author's analogy: Chalara dieback European ash tree fungal disease, lack of biodiversity

• p224 Leroy Cronin 3D chemical printer for drugs

• p225 Medicines for Malaria Venture 300 scientists at 40 institutions

• p226 method home care

• p229 Waitrose British supermarket chain

• p231 Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven borrows from Taurus by Spirit

• p231 Kirby Ferguson "Everything is Remix"

• p233 ch08 Supersize Everything

• p233 1928 tallest NYC building: Bank of Manhattan vs 1048 foot Chrysler Building (with hidden art deco spire hidden in fire shaft, added after BoM building complete)

• p233 1250 foot Empire State Building commenced three months later, finished in one year and 45 days, record tallest for forty years

• p235 American Pritzker Prize "Nobel Prize of architecture"

• p235 $1B Getty museum in LA

• p243 Doing well -> feel better, but not vice versa

• p243 Boosting self-esteem develops narcisists, narcissism and obesity rising since the 1980s
• p244 boosting self-esteem leads to drop in grades

• p244 Houston's Lakewood Church number one podcaster

• p246 mergers intended for impunity and respect, 50% to 80% fail

• p247 2005 BP explosion

• p247 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudhoe_Bay_oil_spill| 2006 5054 barrel Prudhoe Bay Alaska oil spill

• p248 2010 Deepwater Horizon / Macondo Oil Spill

• p249 Bigger drug companies have higher failure rates, traumatized workforce

• p256 Frank Partnoy 1997 F.I.A.S.C.O.: Blood ion the Water on Wall Street . @PSU Lib.

• p256 Complexity breeds arrogance, Goldman Sachs retail customers are "plankton" and investment bank customers are "muppets"
• p257 financial bigness creates scale, but not client value

• p258 Robert W. Baird & Co. CEO Paul Purcell until 2015, died 2020 age 73 cancer

• p258 10% of largest institutions 75% of assets, "too big too fail", unmanageable and opaque
• p259 We don't want to be big, we want to be good. Scale alone does not work.
• p261 Baird temp; 2 years later interview "Where you been? We've been looking for you! We remember you, and you were a good worker. When can yous start?"
• p262 peer-to-peer networks Zopa, Funding Circle, Airbnb etc

• p262 Robin Dunbar human cognitive limit of 150 coherent personal relationships, Dunbar's number

• p264 automated flight controls three modules with identical functions but designed differently, independent technological approaches, robust and fail-safe

• p265 Sobhi A. Batterjee philanthopist, mistakenly labelled as terrorist for 10 years by UN Security Council

• p267 ch09 How Low Can We Go?

• p267 2013 Bangladesh garment factory collapse kills 1134

• p269 warehouses staffed entirely with day-to-day temp workers, 1954 movie On the Waterfront

• p270 Chicago Tribune Houston Chronicle outsourced "local" content to Journatic in Phillipines and Journtent in Mexico

• p271 Leveson Inquiry

• p272 Rich Peppiatt about Fake News journalism ... "If you won't write it, we'll get someone who will"

• p275 One hog produces 4 times as much waste as a human

  • https://foodprint.org/issues/what-happens-to-animal-waste/ in 2012, livestock and poultry produces 369 million tones of manure, 13 time more than US 312 M population

• p275 North Carolina hog population created as much waste as the human population of Canada
• p276 3 million US hog farms in 1950, 65,640 in 2007

• p276 Smithfield Foods 75% of pork market

• p277 low levels of arsenic fed to factory farm chickens to prevent infections, make meat pink

• p277 untreated animal manure (75x human concentration) sprayed on soybean crops to fertilize them

• p278 David Kessler: in 2012, 80% of all antibiotics used for livestock

• p278 LA-MRSA, factory pig farmers 760x more likely to be infected than general population

• p279 antibiotic resistance spreads into environment, affects everyone including vegans
• p282 Smithfield Farms Dennis Leary sustainability must be pursued as part of "value creation"
  • author's perjorative rephrasing: "it must never interfere with making money"

• p284 Ray Anderson Interface Carpet Tiles

• p285 "Sustainability is all about coming up with ways to meet our needs (not wants -- needs) without undermining the ability of other folks to meet their needs tomorrow" "Take nothing. Do no harm"

  • Confessions of a radical industrialist Multco Central 658.4083 A549c 2009

• p286 Anderson proved that harm is not inevitable
• p286 2003 Interface "Cool Carpet" zero net global warming

• p287 American Apparel L.A., sweatshop free, twice minimum wage

  • false statements, owner ousted, bankruptcy, acquired by Gildan Activeware in 2017
• p291 Henry Ford doubled factory wages to reduce wasteful staff turnover
• p291 higher wages enabled workers to buy Ford cars.

• p293 ch10 Top of the World

• p292 Salam Shabab

  • teach collaboration through competition
• p294 regional teams switch partners, by third season kids look forward to new friends
• p296 Gross National Product kvetch: doesn't include externalities

• p297 Simon Kuznets designed GDP in 1944 to plan wartime production

• p299 Obama argued against education competition with China; educated Chinese do not hurt American students
  • no, educated Chinese outcompete miseducated Americans for global trade
  • NOT "they should do worse" but "we can do better, benefiting both"

• p300 12 pillars of competitiveness

• p300 Heffernan: "In addressing labor market efficiency, for example, the top management leaders are asked how easy or hard it is to hire and fire employees ..." CITATION NEEDED
• p301 Heffernan: "no evidence that performance related pay works or generates higher levels of productivity ..." CITATION NEEDED

• p301 Harald Bergsteiner "Global Competitiveness Report is ideology masquerading as data." Pot. Kettle.

• p306 Human Genome project was global ... and proved to be tough

• p309 Celera and Craig Venter

  • Venter raced to win ... goading the rest of the world to race faster

• p315 Elinor Ostrom demonstrated value of commons

• p316 police forces of 25 to 50 outperformed 100 or more

• p320 ch11 A Bigger Prize