Win at All Costs: Inside Nike Running and Its Culture of Deception

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Win at All Costs: Tracking the culture of cheating in running

The communication between employer and employee is an important aspect of organisational safety management. Nevertheless, even if employers and management have adequate information, they cannot promote safety culture without effective communication. Sports needs to be about fair play, but, more and more, it isn't. Whether it's is the great ESPN report on how the New England Patriots routinely cheated by stealing playbooks and taping signals or the federal indictments of soccer's worldwide governing body for widespread corruption, we seem to be bombarded with news about cheating. Trappe TA, White F, Lambert CP, Cesar D, Hellerstein M, Evans WJ. Effect of ibuprofen and acetaminophen on postexercise muscle protein synthesis. Am J Physiol. 2002;282(3 Part 1):E551–E6.Narcissists use emotional appeals to disguise false or outrageous claims. Since many narcissists tend to be Drama Kings or Queens, using over-the-top emotionality to control others comes naturally for them.

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While Lombardi’s quote is morally challenging – and offensive to the new breed of education experts who shy from playground competition on the grounds that some kids have to lose – when it comes to sports, Lombardi is indeed correct. But the idea that “winning is everything” is not correct in business.