Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
by Don Watkins and Yaron Brook · 28 Mar 2016 · 345pp · 92,849 words
the American Dream. That is not the goal of the inequality alarmists. What is their goal? Chopping Down the Tall Poppies The Australians call it “Tall Poppy Syndrome.” When a poppy dares to grow taller than the others, you cut it down to size. It’s a metaphor for an attitude toward success
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’t even jealousy, but a sense of justice. Other times it’s similar to a thief’s desire for the values others have earned. But Tall Poppy Syndrome is different. It is not a desire for personal success, but the desire to tear down the successful. Not the longing to have what others
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, 181 and unions, 128 and the welfare state, 141 Stiglitz, Joseph, 4, 6, 8, 20, 38, 81, 117 Summers, Lawrence, 166 Sunstein, Cass, 183–4 tall poppy syndrome, 213–18 Tanner, Michael, 142 taxes and taxation and health care, 135–6 and income data, 44–5 in the inequality narrative, 20, 23, 27
Principles: Life and Work
by Ray Dalio · 18 Sep 2017 · 516pp · 157,437 words
of a cult, and sometimes both. Getting a lot of attention for being successful is a bad position to be in. Australians call it the “tall poppy syndrome,” because the tallest poppies in a field are the ones most likely to have their heads whacked off. I didn’t like the attention and
A Fraction of the Whole
by Steve Toltz · 12 Feb 2008 · 773pp · 220,140 words
prison still exists, your prison that you don't know you love so much. All right. Let's talk about me in relation to the tall-poppy syndrome. It's best to address this tricky issue right off the bat. Look, don't cut my head off, you shits. You love me now
When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures
by Richard D. Lewis · 1 Jan 1996
form of modesty is greatly respected by most Australians and if it is not observed by the successful, they will rapidly fall victim to the “tall poppy syndrome.” Equally, never take yourself or your national symbols too seriously, or a similar fate will befall you. It is a source of great pride to
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kindness shine through. Praise Australia—there is no reason why you shouldn’t! They are free spenders, so be careful not to appear stingy. The “tall poppy syndrome” is a reality. Ride too high and the Australians will soon cut you down. Australians like cheerfulness and affability. Respond accordingly. Be prepared to chat
Losing the Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry
by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff · 6 Apr 2015 · 327pp · 102,322 words
To Balsillie, the setbacks were wearying evidence of Canadian hostility to hometown success. Fellow Peterborough resident and celebrated author Robertson Davies called it Canada’s “tall poppy syndrome”: the inclination to cut down those standing above the crowd.5 The solution, RIM’s executives decided, was to go where poppies can never grow
I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan
by Steve Coogan · 1 Sep 2011
trying to topple him off his perch, something I found especially callous when he revealed he was suffering from a serious illness, the little-known ‘tall poppy syndrome’. All healthy competition you might think. Until I tell you that Pete died in a car ‘accident’ on 1 April 2005. Look to your right
How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (Information Policy)
by Benjamin Peters · 2 Jun 2016 · 518pp · 107,836 words
kept a steady, customary level of production were left alone in their bureaucratic routine.”41 This ratcheting effect, a kind of institutionalized variant of the tall poppy syndrome, has its corollaries in the mutually reinforcing relationship between demand and supply. In corporate and command regimes, if the supply of one’s quality goods
Equality
by Darrin M. McMahon · 14 Nov 2023 · 534pp · 166,876 words
. O. Wilson insists, “is also to level others, especially those who appear to receive more than they have earned.” What in Australia is called the “tall-poppy syndrome,” the urge to lop off the head of anyone who dares to rise above the rest, or, in Chile, chaqueteo (jacketing), the teasing sport of
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
by Simon Winchester · 27 Oct 2015 · 535pp · 151,217 words
kangaroo hunters, perpetual sunburn, the outback, larrikins, a brutish kind of football, poisonous spiders in the dunny, Anzac biscuits, Vegemite and lamingtons, Castlemaine XXXX, the tall poppy syndrome, blackfellas, barbies, “G’day, sport,” an enviable competence at cricket, an enviable concept known as mateship, the White Australia Policy . . . Yet if anyone dared be