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All Tournaments are Rigged: How to Talk Coherently about Power

We'll explore participants' experiences, familiar observations and scholarship surrounding tournament structures and processes. We'll demonstrate how a rich, integrative tournament metaphor helps resolve common problems arising from familiar two-dimensional "machine rationality" and "social community" frameworks, making it possible coherently to describe and learn effectively from personal experiences with power. We'll test the tournament metaphor's usefulness with respect to case studies about commerce, industry, and government; daily news headlines and anecdotes about winning and losing in projects, markets, games, negotiations, careers, political campaigns, competitions, strategies and wars; and a fascinating host of related mission-oriented, competitive adventures, fights, debates and struggles.