Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.

Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.

Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.

How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices

The legendary statistical consultant W. Edwards Deming, . . . has called the system by which merit is appraised and rewarded 'the most powerful inhibitor to quality and productivity in the Western world' . . . it is simply unfair to the extent that employees are held responsible for what are, in reality, systemic factors that are beyond their control.