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EoC and Competition
Joan Duggan 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. Joan describes how they engaged with their competitors as friends and colleagues. When they did that, they often experienced suspicion and astonishment from her 'competitors'
- How is Joan's EoC approach to competitors different from what we frequently find in business competition?
- Is it possible that this approach to competition can help create stronger, more viable, companies?
- How do you think this collegiality towards competitors could be practically enacted in other situations?
- How does competition typically expect (encourage?) negative attitudes towards others? Is this feeling necessary?
- How can competition be useful in challenging us to do our best?