What if the way most of us understand competition is fundamentally wrong?

Most of us grew up thinking of competition as a zero-sum game — one winner, many losers and survival of the fittest. A book that recently came to our attention is challenging that assumption with both ancient wisdom and modern evidence.

In Striving Together: Achieve Beyond Expectations in a Results-Driven World, Jeff Moore — CEO of Moore Leadership LLC and one of the most accomplished tennis coaches in collegiate history — reframes competition from the ground up. The key is in the etymology: the word “compete” derives from the Latin competere, which combines com (together) and petere (to strive). Compete, properly understood, means striving together.

In this article published by SmartBrief on Leadership, Michael Stallard shares key takeaways from Striving Together, how they relate to the Connection Culture model, and other examples of famous leaders who share this view of what it means to compete.