The zero-sum game of at-expiration options implies that not all strategists trading these calls can come out on top in the end.
Fixing Sales and Marketing begins with dropping the classic definitions of what Sales and Marketing are suppose to do along with the internal tug-of-war associated the zero-sum game mentality.
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The Tories hope that by taking the power of veto over new schools away from officials, they would end the zero-sum game in which a good school place for one child means one fewer for others.
To continue the interpretation, the story of Cain and Abel may be taken as an illustration of the zero-sum game of primogeniture, as well as an allegory for the slaughter of nomadic pasturage by urban agriculture.
BBVA, which acquired first-e, says that the Internet is at best a zero-sum game for banks.
The quest for security on the continent is no longer a zero-sum game in which we must choose between protecting the interests of Central Europe or the interests of Russia, but not both at the same time.
But for the economy as a whole, this can be a zero-sum game: depending on the industry, it may be solely a matter of redistributing profits, not improving overall productivity.
Why are people, politicians especially, inclined to see the global economy as a zero-sum game?
"The urban legend (that Facebook is losing younger users) flows more often than not from surveys people have done of younger users that indicate that they're using other social services ... much of the concern stems from the assumption that this is a zero-sum game, and that's not how we see it, " Ebersman said.
All this shifting of wealth is a zero-sum game and the net effect on incomes is usually zero, or even negative.
In contrast to the stock market, which over long periods offers positive returns linked to the growth in the economy, commodity trading is a zero-sum game.
If counterparties pay up, CDSs are a zero-sum game: what the seller loses, the buyer gains.
This is a model of a zero-sum game with only the top teams as eventual winners.
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Far from a zero-sum game, where the successes of some come at the expense of others, free economies climb spirals of mutual gain and learning.
One implication of the pie metaphor is that wealth is a zero-sum game: there is a fixed amount of houses, cars, medicines, etc. to go around, and the more Steve Jobs gets the less is left for the rest of us.
The second eternal truth: Success is not a zero-sum game, though most academic economists, pundits and politicians act as if it were--maybe because they vie for glory in zero-sum professions. (There can be only 1 U.S. President and 100 senators, for example.) The third eternal truth: The Golden Rule is more than a spiritual truth, it is a business truth.
But a filibuster over a nominee is a zero-sum game: you cannot change the shape of a person.
But that is a zero-sum game for now, not the future.
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This is the lesson of our history: Our economy is not a zero-sum game.
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Possibly partly at the cost of others (but remember: economics is not a zero-sum game).
But if a zero-sum, winner-take-all struggle for leverage is the name of the game, those games seldom conclude as the winners might hope.
"Eventually it will turn into a zero-sum game or a lot closer to that, " Jobs said of the smartphone market.
To move to the Collaborative stage, both groups need to understand and accept that their relationship is not a zero-sum game.
But in Northern Ireland politics is seen as a zero-sum game: if one side gains, it stands to reason that the other must have lost.
At the end of the day, this begs the question: Is there room in the U.S. apparel industry for this type of growth, or is it a zero-sum game?
So, even if SAARC really comes together to deal with the effects of climate change while the big players in the region and elsewhere fail to cut down their emissions, experts say it will be a zero-sum game.
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