Gentle Readers:
DidacticRa@AOL.COM wrote on Friday, December 04, 1998 1:01 PM
>I have attempted to make it clear that I am speaking of 'potentially
damaging' conflict,
>because, as everyone is aware, competition is a special form of conflict.
Hmmmmm . . . indeed.
I've sort of been waiting for someone to stumble on this thought in the
conversation. Didn't we recently have someone ask if economics was relevant
to business education (and a response from an economist)?
If you are a firm humbled or driven from the marketplace by a
competitor,
I'd say you, your employees, stockholders, community, and other stakeholders
may have been significantly damaged.
I know it's nice to be nice these days, maybe even fashionable (in our
politically correct world), but conflict seems to be an essential element in
the universe, business, polite societies no matter how enlightened or where
one is. I would think
economics has said a great deal about this.
With that said, I also admit that cooperation is ok too. But neither
all or nothing, please. I'll have mine equally measured for the best of
worlds.
M.
Michael Levenhagen
High Technology Strategy & General Management
College of Business, California Polytechnic
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
805-756-1563 (off), 756-1473 (fax)
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