BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Tall Poppy Syndrome
- an inclination in the media and among the general public to belittle the achievements of prominent people
Wiktionary Definition for: Tall Poppy Syndrome
- # Australia The tendency to disparage conspicuously successful people.
Additional Resources
- Tall Trees, Tall Thinking and Tall Poppies
- A recent visit to Western Australia got me thinking about the impact of the tall poppy syndrome in innovation. While walking along the unique 40-metre-high platform in the Valley of the Giants (400-year-old Tingle Trees, some of the world's largest), I was impressed with the innovative...
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- Rivkin takes stock as jail looms.
- May 01, 2003 (The Daily Telegraph - ABIX via COMTEX) Flamboyant Sydney-based stockbroker Rene Rivkin, who has been found guilty of insider trading, faces jail. Rivkin claimed, in a document published on his Internet web site, that he has been subjected to a "tall...
- Research articles 2003-05-01
- At home and award.(Brief Article)
- Apr 19, 2005 (Ad News - ABIX via COMTEX) It is estimated there are currently 45 awards, either local or international, that Australian advertising agencies can take part in. A notable feature of advertising awards so far as Australian agencies are concerned is...
- Research articles 2005-04-19
- TEN: Hewitt s good for world tennis Roche
- AAP Sports News Australia 01-06-2000 TEN: Hewitt s good for world tennis Roche Davis Cup coach TONY ROCHE has defended outspoken teenager LLEYTON HEWITT, saying the tennis world needs a bit of colour. ...
- Research articles 2000-01-06
- Golf: Get behind us, Allenby urges Aussies
- Byline: By Rory Dollard MELBOURNE-born Robert Allenby has called on Australia's golfing public to get behind the country's players ahead of the Mastercard Masters at Huntingdale this week. Allenby, a two-time winner of the EUR1.5m event after triumphing in 2003 and 2005, believes there is a...
- Research articles 2007-11-22
- Jealousy's a curse.
- Byline: Beth Quinlivan Oct 17, 2005 (BRW - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Thirty per cent of companies on the 2005 "Fast 100" list published by "BRW" claim that they have...
- Research articles 2005-10-17
