Why You Should Stop Obsessing Over Your Competitors - 22 views
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You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to step away from the shore
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doing something unprecedented is not just adventurous but imperative, and that the far bigger risk is focusing on current competitors as the barometer of strategy.
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Eliminating competition by trying to beat it is dangerously shortsighted. It deflects the attention and the resources of an organization away from the far more important and exciting question of how to shape consumer lifestyles.
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Gabor George Burt is an internationally recognized expert on innovation, creativity and strategy development. His book Slingshot explores the connection between systematic creativity and smart strategy. -
Some good lessons here for school leadership that is always focussed on what other schools are doing.