Collaboration vs competition

Whoever said competition is good was probably a consumer. What competition provides to the consumer is multiple options at a higher quality and cheaper price, but to the businessman, it’s different. It affects businesses negatively.

As a business or a person doing certain projects, competition only reduces the market or opportunity for success. This means, if you love photography and everyone else is doing photography, that is not good for you even though for the consumer of the service that is perfect.

Most people then deal with competition by trying to lower prices and increasing what they give. While that may work initially, at some point the cost gets higher than the selling price.

Of course competition will always exist and we have to accept it, but we don’t have to actively create competition. Competition, when pushed to the limits can end up being destructive to both sides. Instead of always creating competition we can focus on collaboration.

Collaboration creates a bigger force that can make both parties win…and funnily enough, beat their other competition. By collaborating, people can connect new ideas and thus create new things that would have never existed had the collaboration not existed.

Collaboration leads people to new heights of possibilities, while competition limits them to thinking about how to beat the other not jow to transcend above everything.

Work together with the people who would otherwise have to be your foes. Instead of enemies, create friends. Even Abraham Lincoln once pointed out that by creating a friend from a foe, you destroy an enemy.

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