Moving Walkways: Chess – Collaboration vs Combat – The Dance of Competition

“There’s a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective ‘Darwinian’ used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals. But that’s not what Darwinian means to a biologist; it’s whatever leads to reproductive success.” – Stephen Pinker Is negotiation about winning by gaining […]

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Moving Walkways: The Comfort Zone

Unless you’ve just stepped out of a motivational seminar or are on vacation, chances are that your short-term plans do not include any activities that aren’t relatively routine. The same physical, emotional, and mental variables that seem to cause humans trouble with addiction and self-destructive behaviors ALSO tend to steer us (and yes, it’s assumed […]

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Moving Walkways — The Metaphor

Moving Walkways is a perspective viewing change and resource management. Future articles will build on the foundational terms in this article. The Jetson’s did a fine job of subliminally implanting the idea of “slidewalks”—high-speed interconnected transportation platforms that took all the pain and worry out of life. Moving Walkways are only rarely used in the […]

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