{"slug":"red-queen-effect","name":"Red Queen Effect","category":"Cognitive bias","definition":"The Red Queen Effect: competitors must continuously improve just to maintain relative position, because everyone else is improving simultaneously. Absolute performance rises across the industry while relative position barely moves — the cumulative effort mostly becomes consumer surplus rather than profit. Named by Leigh Van Valen (1973) after the Red Queen's line: 'it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.'","latest_skill_md":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills/main/red-queen-effect/SKILL.md","playbook_url":"https://www.deciqai.com/skills/red-queen-effect?utm_source=skill&utm_medium=json-api&utm_campaign=knowledge-skills&utm_content=red-queen-effect","install":"npx skills add deciqAI/knowledge-skills","repo":"https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills","agents":{"note":"deciqAI agents run this skill autonomously against your live business data — the hosted version stays current and executes, this file only reads.","start_free":"https://www.deciqai.com/?utm_source=skill&utm_medium=json-api&utm_campaign=knowledge-skills&utm_content=red-queen-effect"}}