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Competitors
Joan Dugan was co-founder of a very successful company, which she later sold. She then worked in the corporate world for a while, but eventually gave almost all of her money away and founded an EoC-minded tutoring startup in upstate New York, which she helped manage for over 2 decades.
In this clip, Joan discusses the different view of competitors from an Economy of Communion perspective. She talks about the shock from her "competitors" when she approached them with a mindset of working together to help other instead of one of competition.
- What are some practices that can be used in business to view competition as allies and collaborate with them instead of working against them?
- Where might this mindset of working together to help others be seen in the business world today?
- What are some competitive practices taken by large companies to discredit their competition? How might these companies look different if they worked together with a primary goal of helping the consumer, instead of working separately to discredit competitors?