Competition

Is mapping just about conflict? youtu.be

Competition is about seeking something together.

Competition differentiates to

* conflict * cooperation * collaboration

**In this perspective, competition has no polar opposite.**

Other perspectives (twin pages) may add a secondary coding to this, such as better, i.e., which form of competition might be observed as better suited to achieve an outcome, solve a problem, find a solution, etc.

Below is a reference to an example of such a twin page:

Instead of collaboration, coordination, cooperation, co-design, and co-identitifying?

This is a follow-up note to: The State of Mapping by Simon Wardley

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Are training and competition compatible?

... when your whole philosophy is beating the competition at all costs rather than building the best possible product, you create a culture in which employees will always be tempted to cross the line between aggressive and immoral, and between immoral and illegal. post

To put it simply, companies that once were scrappy, underdog startups that challenged the status quo have become the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons. Although these firms have delivered clear benefits to society, the dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and google has come at a price. pdf

Elizabeth Warren's keynote address about industry consolidation described monopolistic corporate power that is “hiding in plain sight all across the American economy and threatens our markets, threatens our economy, and threatens our democracy.”