Non-zero-sumness - very important concept

If there's one thing I hope that people take away from my book it is the concept of non-zero-sumness.  It's the concept of seeking AND solutions rather than OR solutions.  It's the concept of thinking win-win and even win-win-win.  It's why we should "make the problem bigger" so that we can make everyone win - thinking of US, rather than THEM and US. It's the most valuable lesson I've learned from the theory of constraints.

If I've cut and pasted correctly then at the bottom of this post you should see a talk by author Robert Wright where he

... explains “non-zero-sumness,” a game-theory term describing how players with linked fortunes tend to cooperate for mutual benefit. This dynamic has guided our biological and cultural evolution, he says -- but our unwillingness to understand one another, as in the clash between the Muslim world and the West, will lead to all of us losing the “game.” Once we recognize that life is a non-zero-sum game, in which we all must cooperate to succeed, it will force us to see that moral progress — a move toward empathy — is our only hope.

If I've not cut and pasted properly, then click here.