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Success is not a zero-sum game

Lead on Purpose

In games like chess , one person wins and the other loses. .&# — The Product Management Perspective: Product managers rely on others to help them succeed. The most successful products and services come from organizations where teams collaborate effectively.

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Strategy Lessons From Jean Tirole

Harvard Business Review

He then usually brings in the tools of game theory, in which his protagonists have to contend with other rational actors and the moves they might make. In the early 1980s, the game theory approach to studying industries promised to be the next big wave in strategy. Should we increase production?”.

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Why Your Company Should Partner with Rivals

Harvard Business Review

Third, the company could earn goodwill from the local communities in which it manufactures its products. This insight shaped and informed venerable brands' efforts to collectively develop new geographic markets while maintaining their competitive differences. There's a fundamental belief about competition that is becoming obsolete.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. Improves productivity by improving morale.

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Real Leaders Become Awakeners

The Empowered Buisness

The concept of a hologram says that every function … every product/service … every employee contains within it information about your entire company. What would that do to your profitability, productivity and quality? the best result comes when everyone in a group (team, market, etc.) Isn’t that mind blowing?!

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Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career

Harvard Business Review

His book, The Signal and the Noise , explains the power of statistical modeling to improve our predictions about everything from the weather to sports to the stock market. But my experience is all working with baseball data, or learning game theory because you want to be better at poker, right?

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Research: Missing Product Information Doesn’t Bother Consumers as Much as It Should

Harvard Business Review

On websites like Yelp, TripAdvisor, and Amazon, we can sift through hundreds of reviews of a single restaurant, hotel, or item for sale; and organizations and individuals now take it upon themselves to provide a bevy of data about their services and products online. We suspected that consumers would be deaf to marketers’ silence.