{"id":1575,"date":"2010-05-07T18:35:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T18:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2023-08-22T05:55:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T05:55:50","slug":"cooperation-not-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/cooperation-not-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooperation not Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Business, we talk a lot about competition. We create \u201ccompete\u201d strategies and work to undermine other companies\u2019 products and services. This is certainly understandable- Businesses exist to make money and in any finite game, there is a conserved quantity of spoils. More for me implies less for others. Sure, one can expand the pie but even then one can want \u201cone\u2019s unfair share\u201d to use a phrase used half-jokingly (and half-seriously) by people in Business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet is this really sensible, logical, or borne out by evidence? In his groundbreaking 1986 book No Contest, Alfie Kohn argues against the idea that competition is part of human nature and on balance positive. In the \u201cI win you lose\u201d scenario, Kohn argues, we all lose and mediocrity emerges. In Kohn\u2019s view, cooperation, not competition, is the motive force behind progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a world so defined by adherence to and belief in the mythology of the \u201cMarket, \u201c in which \u201cIntellectual Property\u201d is seen as sacrosanct, in which ownership of property is the end towards which people strive, such a thought seems heretical. Labelers will refer to it as \u201cCommunism\u201d and dismiss it accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t

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