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Line 1: <!-- Please do not remove or change this AfD message until the discussion has been closed. --> {{Article for deletion/dated|page=One-upmanship|timestamp=20240916022947|year=2024|month=September|day=16|substed=yes}} <!-- Once discussion is closed, please place on talk page: {{Old AfD multi|page=One-upmanship|date=16 September 2024|result='''keep'''}} --> <!-- End of AfD message, feel free to edit beyond this point --> {{Short description|Type of competitive behavior}} '''One-upmanship''', also called "one-upsmanship",<ref name="Merriam-Webster one-upmanship">{{cite web |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one-upmanship |title=One-upmanship |publisher=Merriam-Webster |accessdate=2021-04-26 }}</ref> is the art or practice of successively outdoing a [[competitor]]. The term was first used in the title of a book by [[Stephen Potter]], published in 1952<ref>In full, ''One-Upmanship: Being Some Account of the Activities and Teachings of the Lifemanship Correspondence College of One-Upness and Games Lifemastery''.</ref> as a follow-up to ''The Theory and Practice of [[Gamesmanship]] (or the Art of Winning Games without Actually Cheating)'' (1947), and ''Lifemanship'' titles in his series of [[tongue-in-cheek]] [[self-help book]]s, and film and television derivatives, that teach various ploys to achieve this. This comic [[satire]] of [[self-help]] style guides manipulates traditional British conventions for the gamester, all life being a game, who understands that ''if you're not one-up, you're one-down.'' Potter's unprincipled principles apply to almost any possession, experience or situation, deriving maximum undeserved rewards and discomfitting the opposition. The 1960 film [[School for Scoundrels (1960 film)|''School for Scoundrels'']] and its [[School for Scoundrels (2006 film)|2006 remake]] were satiric portrayals of how to use Potter's ideas. This tactic has been used to levels of wizardry by an Air Force intelligence non commissioned office Master Sergeant Rhoads, who would use one-upmanship with such gusto and punctuality that he received the moniker Elevenorife (as a play on the popular British holiday playground of Tenorife) In that context, the term refers to a satiric course in the [[gambit]]s required for the systematic and conscious practice of "creative intimidation", making one's associates feel inferior and thereby gaining the status of being "one-up" on them. Viewed seriously, it is a phenomenon of [[group dynamics]] that can have significant effects in the [[management]] field: for instance, manifesting in [[office politics]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Wiley CIAexcel Exam Review 2015 |first1=S. Rao |last1=Vallabhaneni |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-119-09431-9 |page=326 |chapter=Organizational Politics}}</ref> Line 29 ⟶ 33: ==External links== {{wiktionary|one-upmanship}}
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