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18 relations: Arms race, Competition, Gambit, Gamesmanship, Gaming the system, Group dynamics, Management, Mind games, Opportunism, Satire, School for Scoundrels (1960 film), School for Scoundrels (2006 film), Self-help, Self-help book, Stephen Potter, The Dozens, Tongue-in-cheek, Workplace politics.
Arms race
An arms race, in its original usage, is a competition between two or more states to have the best armed forces.
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Competition
Competition is, in general, a contest or rivalry between two or more entities, organisms, animals, individuals, economic groups or social groups, etc., for territory, a niche, for scarce resources, goods, for mates, for prestige, recognition, for awards, for group or social status, or for leadership and profit.
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Gambit
A gambit (from ancient Italian gambetto, meaning "to trip") is a chess opening in which a player, more often White, sacrifices, usually a pawn, with the hope of achieving a resulting advantageous position.
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Gamesmanship
Gamesmanship is the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win or gain a serious advantage in a game or sport.
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Gaming the system
Gaming the system (also gaming the rules, bending the rules, abusing the system, cheating the system, milking the system, playing the system, or working the system) can be defined as using the rules and procedures meant to protect a system in order, instead, to manipulate the system for a desired outcome.
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Group dynamics
Group dynamics is a system of behaviors and psychological processes occurring within a social group (intragroup dynamics), or between social groups (intergroup dynamics).
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Management
Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a not-for-profit organization, or government body.
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Mind games
Mind games is used to define three forms of competitive human behaviors.
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Opportunism
Opportunism is the conscious policy and practice of taking advantage of circumstances – with little regard for principles, or with what the consequences are for others.
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Satire
Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
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School for Scoundrels (1960 film)
School for Scoundrels is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Robert Hamer and starring Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas.
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School for Scoundrels (2006 film)
School for Scoundrels is a 2006 American feature/comedy film, starring Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Heder, and directed by Todd Phillips.
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Self-help
Self-help or self-improvement is a self-guided improvementAPA Dictionary of Physicology, 1st ed., Gary R. VandenBos, ed., Washington: American Psychological Association, 2007.
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Self-help book
A self-help book is one that is written with the intention to instruct its readers on solving personal problems.
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Stephen Potter
Stephen Meredith Potter (1 February 1900 – 2 December 1969) was a British author best known for his parodies of self-help books, and their film and television derivatives.
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The Dozens
The Dozens is a game of spoken words between two contestants, common in black communities of the United States, where participants insult each other until one gives up.
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Tongue-in-cheek
The phrase tongue-in-cheek is a figure of speech that describes a statement or other expression that the speaker or author does not mean literally, but intends as humor or otherwise not seriously.
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Workplace politics
Workplace politics is the process and behavior in human interactions involving power and authority.
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