HOW SUCCESS CAN BE COMPETITTIVE

Achieving victory over someone else. My success implies your failure. Competitors are usually people, whether known and concrete (opponents in a tennis match) or unknown and abstract (all other applicants for a for a job). U.S News and World Report, in article celebrating "SUCCESS! The chase is Back in Style Again," graphically illustrate the relationship among competitors in the business world. An opponent may, however, be entirely impersonal. John Henry, "The steel-driving man'" is famed for beating a machine, and Paul Bunyan for taming the primeval forest.