Benjamin Alvarez (journaliste DW Espanol) sur Touitteur:
▻https://twitter.com/benjalvarez1/status/1250563198081740800
This is how Angela Merkel explained the effect of a higher #covid19 infection rate on the country’s health system.
Benjamin Alvarez (journaliste DW Espanol) sur Touitteur:
▻https://twitter.com/benjalvarez1/status/1250563198081740800
This is how Angela Merkel explained the effect of a higher #covid19 infection rate on the country’s health system.
#Angela_Merkel #Merkel
par rapport à #Macron et au #macronisme... il n’y a pas un monde, il y a 27 planètes !
#coronavirus #explications #perspective # #déconfinement #vidéo
Comme dit @nepthys :
j’ai compris : la durée de confinement est inversement proportionnelle au QI des dirigeant.es
Impressionnant ! La différence avec nos touristous qui improvisent et enveloppent ça d’un tas de guimauve...
Ce qui m’impressionne, c’est que Merkel table sur l’intelligence des gens, même si ce discours ne constitue qu’une minuscule partie du débat à tenir sur le déconfinement. Elle parie sur l’intelligence de son public pendant que l’autre nous prend tellement pour des imbéciles que ça devient embarrassant pour lui...
Coronavirus, Angela Merkel e la matematica dei contagi: la sua spiegazione è perfetta
La cancelliera tedesca, in conferenza stampa, ha spiegato perché il suo Paese ridurrà molto lentamente le misure di lockdown, nonostante il numero di morti da Covid-19 in Germania sia di molto inferiore a quello registrato in altri stati europei come Italia, Francia e Spagna. Sono 3.850 - dati del 16 aprile 2020 - i deceduti a causa del nuovo coronavirus in territorio tedesco. Per gli esperti la differenza si deve anche al sistema di tracciamento dei casi positivi da parte della sanità tedesca, che ha effettuato fin dall’inizio dell’epidemia un numero di tamponi molto elevato. Questo ha permesso di interrompere tempestivamente le catene di contagio. Il 9 aprile, stando a quanto riportava Reuters, la Germania aveva già effettuato 1.3 milioni di tamponi contro gli 807.000 effettuati in Italia a partire dal 21 febbraio scorso e fino alla data in oggetto. In Germania alcuni negozi riapriranno a partire dalla prossima settimana, mentre le scuole ripartiranno il prossimo 4 maggio.
Angela Merkel, una laurea in fisica e un dottorato in chimica quantistica, riferendosi ai numeri del suo Paese ha parlato di un «successo intermedio fragile» e ha illustrato con un modello matematico perché è importante che la curva dei contagi resti più piatta possibile nel lungo periodo. La sua spiegazione, sui social, è stata definita come una tra le più chiare ascoltate finora.
▻https://video.repubblica.it/dossier/coronavirus-wuhan-2020/coronavirus-angela-merkel-e-la-matematica-dei-contagi-la-sua-spiegazione-e-perfetta/358367/358924
A mettre en lien avec cette autre intervention publique d’Angela Merkel, en novembre 2020 :
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/884303
▻https://www.foudetheatre.com/post/et-si-je-vous-parlais-de-mon-avignon
Salut, mes petits fous. Il est temps pour moi de faire le bilan de cette expérience hors norme que j’ai eu la chance de vivre en Avignon.
Cette année plus de 1500 spectacles. Plus de 300 accréditations "presse". Des milliers de spectateurs de toute la France mais aussi d’ailleurs. J’ai croisé plein de Belges, des Italiens et même des Québécois. Et quels spectateurs ! J’ai été vraiment surpris par le niveau et l’implication des fous de théâtre. Leurs cultures. Leurs connaissances. Il est troublant de voir ces salles combles avec un public hyperconcentré du début jusqu’à la fin. Je tiens à faire un hommage tout particulier aux comédiens qui jouent parfois plusieurs pièces dans la même journée. Qui n’ont pas vraiment le temps pour une concentration maximum et qui doivent souvent gérer leurs propres accessoires et costumes. Les techniciens, éclairagistes, régisseurs, font un travail incroyable pour que tout fonctionne au cordeau, car le temps est particulièrement précieux avec toutes ces pièces qui s’enchaînent continuellement. Le régisseur du théâtre La Luna (il se reconnaîtra) est quelqu’un de particulièrement charmant qui m’a sauvé de quelques coups difficiles. Les responsables de diffusion sont ultra sollicités et toujours souriants.
Le festival OFF d’Avignon est loin d’être off, au contraire, quand on imagine qu’une bande de jeunes fous se sont lancés dans cette aventure il y a plusieurs années. Ils peuvent être fiers. En France. L’art vivant est magnifique et la création artistique est formidable. Les paris sont courageux, étonnants et ambitieux.
Avignon est mon lieu de pèlerinage a moi (chacun le sien). L’endroit où je deviens encore plus fou. Je n’ai ni envie de manger ni envie de dormir. Je n’ai envie que de théâtre.
Je tiens absolument à m’excuser pour les rendez-vous manqués, oubliés. Les spectacles que j’ai ratés. Les rencontres que je n’ai pu faire. Les pièces que je n’ai pu voir. J’en suis profondément triste, mais j’ai donné mon maximum. Vraiment.
Je voudrais souligner certains théâtres où la programmation a été particulièrement intéressantes cette année et où l’on a pu m’y voir très souvent. L’Essaion Avignon. Le théâtre transversal. Le Buffon, l’espace Roseaux Teinturier. Le théâtre la Luna. Le théâtre Actuel. Le théâtre des corps saints. Le théâtre les 3 Soleils. La Fabrik théâtre et un petit nouveau le théâtre des brunes. La directrice - comédienne Ariane Carmin est quelqu’un que j’ai particulièrement appréciée et je suis certains que ce théâtre, va faire beaucoup parler de lui les prochaines saisons.
En vrac. Mes coups de cœur 2019.
Vous pouvez lire mes articles détaillés pour chaque pièce mais là, avec le recul, ce que je retiens tout particulièrement. Les cavaliers, juste magnifiques. Happy mâle. Une très belle surprise. Tatie jambon pour Marianne James que j’adore. Un garçon d’Italie pour le texte magnifique et la mise en scène particulièrement réussie de Mathieu Touzé. Les passagers de l’aube, pour la justesse de l’écriture, les idées brillantes de « Mise en Science » et le jeu des comédiens. 4,48 psychoses. Pour le choix de ce sujet difficile. Le texte particulièrement beau est la merveilleuse comédienne, Cécile Fleury. Des plans sur la comète. Pour le rire et le bonheur que j’ai eu, pour Tristan Petitgirard que j’adore pour les comédiens excellents. Bye Bye tristesse, pour Caroline Loeb, divinement gracieuse et à fleur de peau. Le K. Pour le texte. La brillante idée de l’objet et Grégori baquet que j’adore. Nos années parallèles pour le texte magnifique de Stéphane Corbin (le papa des funambules) brillant et lumineux. Pour la mise en scène intelligente et émouvante de Virginie Lemoine et Valérie Zaccomer, un véritable coup de foudre. La famille Ortiz pour Jean-philippe Daguerre, un très grand auteur contemporain, isabelle de Botton et Bernard Malaka au charisme fou. Marie des poules pour l’écriture de Gérard Savoisien. La mise en scène et le jeu d’Arnaud Denis tout en nuances et élégance et surtout Béatrice Agenin, une immense comédienne. Don Juane et Pan deux très belles surprises avec de jeunes comédiens brillants. Stephanie st Clair. Pour l’histoire incroyable et Isabelle Kancel absolument brillante. Beaucoup de bruit pour rien. Pour les choix de mise en scène très culottés et cette bande de comédiens truculente. Qui a peur de Virginia Wolf ? Pour la surprise absolue et je jeu absolument magnifique des comédiens. Frédérique Lanzarini est parfaitement parfaite. Le 32 pour une fin de soirée idéale et pour Mme brune que j’adore avec son aspirateur. Good Night. Parce que je ne m’attendais pas du tout à cela et pour le jeu de Romain poli et Nouritzia Emmanuelia. Succès reprise. Pour la pièce de café-théâtre idéale et pour Agathe Quelquejay, lumineuse.
Quelle chance d’avoir pu voir toutes ces belles productions qui sont certainement les grands succès de la rentrée 2019 (je le souhaite de tout cœur). J’ai déjà très envie de revoir ces pièces très vite à Paris.
#essaionavignon #theatretransversal #lebuffon #espaceroseauxteinturier #theatrelaluna #theatreactuel #theatredescorpssaints #theatreles3soleils #lafabriktheatre #theatredesbrunes
#le32 #quiapeurdevirginiawolf #lesfunambules #beaucoupdebruitpourrien #stephaniestclair #pan #donjuane #mariedespoules #lafamilleortiz #nosanneesparalleles #lek #buybyetristesse #desplanssurlacomete #448 #lespassagersdelaube #ungarconditalie #goodnight #tatiejambon #lescavaliers #succesreprise
#arianecarmin #agathequelquejay #romainpoli #frédériquelanzarini #Isabellekancel #Beatriceagenin #gérardsavoisien #arnauddenis #isabelledebotton #bernardmalaka #jeanphilippedaguerre #virginielemoine #grégoribaquet #stéphanecorbin #valériezaccomer #carolineloeb #cécilefleury #tristanpetitgirard #isabellekancel #mathieutouzé #mariannejames #foudetheatre #avignon19 #theatre #festivalavignon #avignonoff #avignonleoff #offavignon
Opinion | America’s Cities Are Unlivable. Blame Wealthy Liberals. - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/opinion/california-housing-nimby.html
To live in California at this time is to experience every day the cryptic phrase that George W. Bush once used to describe the invasion of Iraq: “Catastrophic success.” The economy here is booming, but no one feels especially good about it. When the cost of living is taken into account, billionaire-brimming California ranks as the most poverty-stricken state, with a fifth of the population struggling to get by. Since 2010, migration out of California has surged.
The basic problem is the steady collapse of livability. Across my home state, traffic and transportation is a developing-world nightmare. Child care and education seem impossible for all but the wealthiest. The problems of affordable housing and homelessness have surpassed all superlatives — what was a crisis is now an emergency that feels like a dystopian showcase of American inequality.
#états-unis #Californie #succès_catastrophique #pauvreté #inégalité #dystopie
Building a Business on #slack — $80k/mo with a Slack-first App
▻https://hackernoon.com/building-a-business-on-slack-80k-mo-with-a-slack-first-app-80eb79ab6cfb?
Building a Business on Slack — $80k/mo with a Slack-first AppSlack is more than just a chat app; it’s an ecosystem to build a solid business on.While Slack prepares for the IPO, its App Ecosystem keeps evolving becoming a place to build a business on. Standuply, a Slack-first App, reached $80k in revenue in February 2019.I’m Alex Kistenev, CEO and co-founder of Standuply and in charge of marketing. This post is about my experience of growing a Slack App to $80k per month.The product competitionIf you search for ‘standup’ in the Slack App Directory, you’ll find Standuply at the 1st place with 30 other competing apps left behind. Here’s how we did that.Laser focusThere are Slack apps made by web development studios. They felt the pain, had resources and eventually built the initial product. But it (...)
Sean Lourdes Shares a Vital Hack for #success in Life and #business
▻https://hackernoon.com/sean-lourdes-shares-a-vital-hack-for-success-in-life-and-business-35054b
Behind every successful business is a solid strategy. Every year, companies invest collective hundreds of millions of dollars in professionals who they hope would give them the best strategies for their businesses. They do this because they know that in the predominantly capitalist society of today, brands that don’t compete well die off fast.For Sean Lourdes, a business that starts out without a solid blueprint reduces its chances of thriving in the markets to near zero. In his words “Launching a business without drafting an effective strategy for its survival is similar to going to battle with a fierce enemy without defining techniques for assault”. And Sean is not alone. In the book “The Art of the Deal”, real estate billionaire and United States president, Donald Trump, gave insights on (...)
Elon Musk is not reading articles online about how to become Elon Musk
▻https://hackernoon.com/elon-musk-is-not-reading-articles-online-about-how-to-become-elon-musk-d
If you Google ‘How to become Elon Musk’, you will come across thousands of articles that address that question in one way or another. Either they are answers on Quora to that specific question itself, or they are indirect answers to that question with titles ranging from ‘10 ways to think like Elon Musk’ (Forbes) to ‘8 things that Elon Musk does before 8am’ (Medium).You can substitute Elon Musk with any successful entrepreneur, author, sports person, actor, CEO, musician, politician, nobel laureate and you will see similar results.The Internet is full of literature on how to do things like, how to think like and how to become any of these successful people.The Internet is full of this literature because it attracts clicks.People love short cuts. They want to learn how to become successful in (...)
#life-lessons #progress #success #elon-musk #self-improvement
To Experience Extraordinary Results, Be a Maker in The Morning and a Manager in The Afternoon
▻https://hackernoon.com/to-experience-extraordinary-results-be-a-maker-in-the-morning-and-a-mana
Here’s what I mean:I just finished reading ‘The ONE Thing’ by Gary Keller and this was the key takeaway point from the book.“Be a Maker in the morning and a manager in the afternoon.”In his book, Gary Keller talks about how important it is to time block your ONE thing — your most important task — and get it done first thing in the morning.In fact, the most productive people, the ones who’ve achieved extraordinary results, follow this path.Their most important appointment each day is with themselves. And they never miss it.Stephan King, for example, does the exact same thing.In his book ‘On Writing’, he describes his daily schedule this way —Mornings belong to whatever is new or the current draft. Afternoons are for naps and letters. And Evenings are for reading, family time, and any revisions that cannot (...)
#maker-in-the-morning #manager-in-the-afternoon #success #life #productivity
Le #Niger et l’#Italie saluent la chute du flux de migrants africains vers l’Europe
Le président du Niger Mahamadou Issoufou et le Premier ministre italien, Giuseppe Conte, ont salué mardi 15 janvier à Niamey le #succès de la lutte conjointe contre l’#immigration_clandestine avec la chute drastique du flux de migrants vers l’Europe depuis 2016.
« La collaboration conjointe avec le Niger a porté ses fruits (…) le nombre de migrants qui passent par le Niger a énormément baissé. L’Italie a réussi à réduire les débarquements (de clandestins) de 80%, voire plus, en 2018 », s’est félicité Giuseppe Conte.
▻https://www.jeuneafrique.com/706613/societe/le-niger-et-litalie-saluent-la-chute-du-flux-de-migrants-africains-ver
#externalisation #migrations #asile #réfugiés #lutte_contre_l'immigration_clandestine #statistiques #chiffres
v. aussi :
Statistiques | Baisse des demandes d’asile. Pas de quoi se réjouir
►https://seenthis.net/messages/693203
Can You Be Successful Without #college?
▻https://hackernoon.com/can-you-be-successful-without-college-c94594f1a4d9?source=rss----3a8144e
(TLDR yes)After decades of growth, college enrollment among new students is dropping. For these forward thinking young people, rejecting the traditional college experience doesn’t mean rejecting #education — it means rejecting crippling debt.Gen Zers consider financial independence the first milestone of adulthood, leaving them with a hard choice to make — college or career? Over the past 70 years, undergraduate tuition has grown by more than four times and today two in three students who earn their bachelor’s degree go into debt over it. Not to mention the average cost of an advanced degree, like law or medicine, which has grown by more than eight times. What we are left with is a collective student loan debt of $1.5 trillion. Faced with this prospect, many college-age individuals are (...)
Insider Tips for Launching a Successful ICO
▻https://hackernoon.com/insider-tips-for-launching-a-successful-ico-c89c8fc124f1?source=rss----3
An ICO or an initial coin offering is a form of funding through cryptocurrencies. Here, new projects sell their tokens in exchange for Ethereum or bitcoin. It is quite similar to the popular initial public funding where people purchase the shares of a company. Well, a token often gives access to the product that a certain company wants to bring to the market after getting the funds they require, often known as a utility token. It can ideally act as a virtual asset or a digital representation of the material.An initial coin offering can be very tempting, but it calls for a lot of work to start one and successful. According to reports, over 80% of ICOs are deemed to be scams. This calls for a proper strategy if you are going to be launching one.Investment in initial coin offerings has (...)
#ico-insider-tips #initial-coin-offering #launching-an-ico #successful-ico #blockchain
Become a Better #entrepreneur By Embracing #failure
▻https://hackernoon.com/become-a-better-entrepreneur-by-embracing-failure-b83048010d0f?source=rs
Failure is something nobody enjoys. However, there’s proof that it will make you a better entrepreneur. As such, you should learn how to truly embrace it.Failure is synonymous with a lack of #success. This is something nobody enjoys experiencing, especially in the business world today. However, there are some studies that suggest that as an entrepreneur you really should be embracing failure because it will make you a better entrepreneur. Here are some ways you can learn how to truly embrace failure and grow from doing so.Image SourceFailure is a Great way to LearnEntrepreneur says it’s those people who fail the most who will learn the most because you’re learning what does and doesn’t work. This is something Thomas Edison said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” (...)
Brain hack your New Year’s resolution for success
▻https://bigthink.com/personal-growth/brain-hack-new-years-resolution
It’s not about the resolution but about how your mind tackles the problem.
Successful second round of fusion experiments with Wendelstein 7-X ...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/8091886
Successful second round of fusion experiments with Wendelstein 7-X
New stellarator record achieved / next upgrading phase begun according to plan The experiments conducted from July until November at the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at the Max Planck Institute for… Article word count: 805
HN Discussion: ▻https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18534027 Posted by mrfusion (karma: 5975) Post stats: Points: 177 - Comments: 76 - 2018-11-26T15:35:53Z
#HackerNews #7-x #experiments #fusion #round #second #successful #wendelstein #with
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New stellarator record achieved / next upgrading phase begun according to plan
The experiments conducted from July until November at the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald (...)
15 Pro Tips for Your #startup #success
▻https://hackernoon.com/15-pro-tips-for-your-startup-success-47920f120c7f?source=rss----3a8144ea
Are you starting a startup? Or perhaps you have built a startup and looking for the ways to make it successful. If so, you should know that scaling a startup is definitely no easy endeavor. There is an ample number of objectives and things that you are required to accomplish. In fact, there are a variety of things that can go wrong along the way.What do you need to do to run a business successful? The phase of a startup is just like the most exasperating and exciting that you will experience over the life of being an entrepreneur. In today’s economy, nothing can beat the magic of developing a business from the scratch of ideas, overcoming every obstacle and being naysayers.You can also not deny the fact that nothing is as frustrating and disappointing as running headfirst into a wall (...)
How Highly Resilient People Survive to Thrive
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-highly-resilient-people-survive-to-thrive-bc78052a451?source=rss----
[Photo by Keith Hardy on Unsplash]Resilience is the universal human capacity to face, overcome, and even be strengthened by experiences of adversity — bending like bamboo instead of breaking.“Resiliency is an attitude; it’s your belief that you can conquer anything. It is the ability to go from days to weeks to months to years to reach your destination, defining and re-defining your personal goals along the way. At times, it means using adversity to find the opportunities that lead us to our true destiny.”— Survive to ThriveCreating your thoughts, following your own path, ignoring skeptics, and dusting yourself off every time you fall requires discipline over energy and drive.Often, that comes solely from within. How we cultivate that inner focus is by taking steps on our personal journey with (...)
Failure That Turned Into Success. The Development Story
▻https://hackernoon.com/failure-that-turned-into-success-the-development-story-c37af4a9744c?sour
Some projects go through failure and even bankruptcy before emerging out on top. Today we want to share a story of an entrepreneurial person, a trusted client, we have had for 4 years. He started out an ambitious idea, investor support only to lose it all in the first round. But, with FreshCodes help, he overcame the failure and succeeded in the second round. Let it be a motivational and cautionary tale on how startup businesses fail.Why Do Small Businesses Fail? The Story Of A Startup EntrepreneurWe met our client in August 2014. The deal was to provide web development services for the founders new venture — an EdTech project. It was both an innovative and revolutionary product for education. The goal was to both facilitate the teachers’ work and make classes interactive and (...)
#entrepreneurial-process #real-life-failure-stories #successful-entrepreneurs #failed-startup #web-development-services
How To Find #success In P2P Loan #investment
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-success-in-p2p-loan-investment-943ec25d9c71?source=rss----3a
Originally Posted on 2017–12–21 at Fast Invest BlogWith interest rates still pitiably low — currently 0.5% in the UK — and not looking likely to increase any time soon, there’s little wonder that savers across the country are looking for new, low-risk ways to make their money work.Taking those first few steps away from the safety of the stagnating bank account and into the more vibrant realm of speculation can be scary for the DIY investor, so unless you’re a secret thrill-seeker searching for a little jeopardy to get your kicks, it’s important to find an investment medium that can deliver comfortable returns without also delivering a daily heart attack. If that sounds like you, then P2P (peer to peer) lending could be the answer.If you’re not already familiar with the concept, P2P loan investment (...)
When Negotiating, Capitalize On Aggression
▻https://hackernoon.com/when-negotiating-capitalize-on-aggression-87923cb61a90?source=rss----3a8
By Praveen Tipirneni, CEO of Morphic Therapeutic Inc. Originally published on Quora.Everyone wants to be liked.We all feel a need to instinctively get along with other people. In most aspects of life, this is a positive thing.But your instinctual need to be liked can be a real problem when negotiating. There’s always a subtle temptation to ensure the other side likes you. The temptation becomes even stronger when you’re dealing with an especially aggressive negotiator. The harder someone pushes, the more you may feel inclined to make concessions.I’ve been in plenty of high-stakes negotiations throughout my career, and I’ve learned something crucial. You don’t want to be liked in a #negotiation. You want to be respected.Here’s how to gain respect when pitted against an aggressive negotiator.Be (...)
#success #capitalize-on-aggression #lessons-learned #quora-partnership
On The Brink of #blockchain
▻https://hackernoon.com/on-the-brink-of-blockchain-4d469e425e83?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4
By Ali Ayyash, Co-Founder at Beetoken (2017-present). Originally published on Quora.When I arrived at Google as a software engineer in June 2016, I was ecstatic.I believed Google to be a company that prioritized innovation and encouraged personal creativity, so I was thrilled to be working somewhere that I could start flexing those mental muscles. I joined the Cloud Resource Hierarchy Team, and although I found the work interesting, I imagined I’d be making an impact outside of my team right away. That’s the kind of value I thought that Google placed upon creative thinking and good ideas.But I quickly realized I was wrong. Within six months, I felt stifled.Google is a huge company, which meant it had a lot of bureaucratic hoops to jump through. I found that even though my opinion was (...)
#success #life-lessons #quora-partnership #brink-of-blockchain
President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph #Kabila will not contest in the December 2018 #elections - he intends to hand over power.
▻http://www.africanews.com/2018/02/05/kabila-ready-to-handover-power-set-to-name-successor-in-july #democracy #Africa #Congo #Zaïre #Afrique #démocratie #élections #transition #succession #DRC
Winning a competition predicts dishonest behavior | Amos Schurra and Ilana Ritovb, 2015
Edited by Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, and approved December 30, 2015 (received for review July 30, 2015)
▻http://www.pnas.org/content/113/7/1754.full
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Significance
Competition is prevalent. People often resort to unethical means to win (e.g., the recent Volkswagen scandal). Not surprisingly, competition is central to the study of economics, psychology, sociology, political science, and more. Although we know much about contestants’ behavior before and during competitions, we know little about contestants’ behavior after the competition has ended. Connecting postcompetition behaviors with preceding competition experience, we find that after a competition is over winners behave more dishonestly than losers in an unrelated subsequent task. Furthermore, the subsequent unethical behavior effect seems to depend on winning, rather than on mere success. Providing insight into the issue is important in gaining understanding of how unethical behavior may cascade from exposure to competitive settings.
Abstract
Winning a competition engenders subsequent unrelated unethical behavior. Five studies reveal that after a competition has taken place winners behave more dishonestly than competition losers. Studies 1 and 2 demonstrate that winning a competition increases the likelihood of winners to steal money from their counterparts in a subsequent unrelated task. Studies 3a and 3b demonstrate that the effect holds only when winning means performing better than others (i.e., determined in reference to others) but not when success is determined by chance or in reference to a personal goal. Finally, study 4 demonstrates that a possible mechanism underlying the effect is an enhanced sense of entitlement among competition winners.
#competition #behavioral_ethics #behavioral_economics #decision_making #corruption
Life, both personal and professional, is beset with challenges and rivalries. Success is often determined by one’s ability to outstrip the competition. Although competition motivates individuals to work harder to obtain better outcomes it may also lead to deleterious effects, such as increasing dishonesty in pursuit of competitive advantage and decreasing prosocial behavior. Indeed, the literature offers important insights regarding the propensity of contestants to behave in prosocial or asocial manners before and during competitions (1, 2). We know only little about contestants’ behavior after the competition has ended. The current research aims at filling this gap. In particular, we ask: Who is more likely to subsequently engage in unrelated unethical behaviors—winners or losers?
Competition outcomes are by definition relative. The results are determined by the ranking of the competitor relative to other contestants. Because performance outcome is determined relative to others, competition evinces social comparisons (3, 4). Enhanced social comparison can in turn result in two contrasting effects. On one hand, because losers have access to fewer resources than winners, they may be more motivated to use asocial behaviors to enhance their resources. Indeed, several laboratory studies show that losing tends to provoke subsequent dishonest behavior (5⇓–7), suggesting increased motivation to behave unethically when in a position of disadvantage (8). On the other hand, one may expect that the increased prominence of social comparison in competition will evince a sense of entitlement among winners (9, 10). The sense of entitlement, in turn, facilitates dishonest behavior among winners (6, 11). This reasoning points to the opposite prediction, namely that winners are more inclined to behave dishonestly than losers.
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#behavior #competition #dishonest #ethics #honesty #psychology #success
Travailleurs bien payés, espèce menacée
▻https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/2017/07/24/travailleurs-bien-payes-espece-menacee
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Surtout, les entreprises de l’économie 4.0 doivent créer leur marché et écarter leurs concurrents pour s’imposer. Dans cette concurrence féroce, le prix de leur service est déterminant. Il sera maintenu d’autant plus bas que la rémunération des indépendants et le paiement des impôts seront réduits au minimum. Une fois leur domination acquise, rien ne dit que les futurs gagnants se montreront soudain plus généreux envers ceux qui, sur le terrain, auront contribué à leur succès.
Plusieurs gouvernements ont tenté d’encadrer cette nouvelle économie, notamment en France et en Grande-Bretagne. Mais leur pouvoir est limité : ils agiront toujours a posteriori et face à des acteurs globalisés, capables de déplacer leurs profits là où ils seront le moins taxés.
La force des acteurs de la nouvelle économie tient finalement à une proposition simple : ils vendent du « plus pour moins » – davantage de biens ou services pour moins cher, et le plus souvent, immédiatement. Leurs pseudo-employés en paient jusqu’à présent le prix. Ironique, dans une économie dite du partage.
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#revenus #précarité #globalisation #succès
#mitigation_a_posteriori
Les #Etats-Unis se félicitent d’un accord sur l’#eau entre #Israël et l’Autorité palestinienne
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2017/07/13/les-etats-unis-se-felicitent-d-un-accord-sur-l-eau-entre-israel-et-l-autorit
L’occupant vend de l’eau à l’occupé et c’est un « message positif »
Les messages positifs sont suffisamment rares pour être exploités.
#renversement de la #succession d’un style du #colonialisme
Growth in spurts and increments | Fellowship Room
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With the arrival of a new year, new resolutions and plans appear in the mind. It’s good to reevaluate one’s goals and objectives, analyze past performance, and plan for better results.
Usually, plans made at the new year tend to be ambitious. The exercise gyms, for example, have their best attendance in January. That’s understandable. But neither should the small, incremental changes be despised. To borrow the language of Zechariah, let us not despise the day of small things, or as NET puts it, “small beginnings” Zech 4.10.