The contest for in-group status is for good or for bad an integral part of all social environments. In his book “The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play it”, Will Storr outlines three types of status games that people participate in – dominance, success, and virtue games.
In this article, we’ll try to illustrate the impact all three games might have on a startup team in order to let you manage their effects as a startup founder.
“Status … is hierarchical. Who’s number one? Who’s number two? Who’s number three? And for number three to move to number two, number two has to