Transforming Competition

    OLD PARADIGM                         NEW PARADIGM

                              Beliefs

* The "others" are my enemy.         * The "others: are my benchmark.

* The name of the game is winning.   * The name of the game is
                                       continual development.

* I am better than they are.         * I am important.

* I am separate from the others.     * I am part of the community.

                            Behaviors:

* Segregating.                       * Engaging, collaborating.

* Belittling, intimidating.          * Appreciating, supporting.

* Manipulating, exploiting.          * Initiating, asserting.

* Seriousness with fear.             * Seriousness with laughter.

* High-focused energy.               * High-focused energy.


Daniel Kielson, A New Paradigm for Competition, *The Futurist*,
November-December, 1994, p 64.