Invest your energy in making your business, team, and innovation better, not in knocking down your competitors.
The competition you’re playing with are people too and they want to win and are just as worthy of winning as you are.
When you dehumanize, demonize, objectify, or belittle your competition, you underestimate them. No one wins in this scenario.
People aren’t bad or trying to hurt you because they want what you want. Trouble starts when you dehumanize and tell stories about your competition that characterize them as the “others,” as dehumanized entities that are less than and less worthy than you are. When you do this, you make yourself smaller, not your competition.
It’s seldom truly you against the world.
You can choose to respond to competition by playing better or by acting small.
You don’t have to hate someone to compete against them.
Choosing to embrace healthy competition can keep you on your toes and elevate all playing the game to greater heights creating unprecedented value for those you seek to serve.
