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Beyond the Culture of Contest | Michael Karlberg | TEDx
December 26, 2016, in Videos > Talk, by Sonjel VreelandIn this TEDxInnsbruck talk, Michael Karlberg, a communications professor, shares some of the ideas found in his book Beyond the Culture of Contest.
Michael Karlberg explores how competition and adversarialism, with its social inequities and lack of ecological sustainability, lie at the heart of current Western societies. He presents how imperative it is for us to learn how to work together and discusses the advantages of mutualism.
Beyond the Culture of Contest can be purchased here.
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Sonjel Vreeland
In her innermost heart, Sonjel is a stay-at-home parent and a bookworm with a maxed out library card but professionally she is a museologist with a background in English Literature. She currently lives on Prince Edward Island, an isle in the shape of a smile on the eastern Canadian coast. Sonjel is a writer who loves to listen to jazz when she's driving at night.
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Excellent. Thank you for publishing this.
Hooshang S. Afshar (December 12, 2016 at 11:20 PM)