"𝐷𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 - 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎 𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑚. 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑧𝑦, 𝑙𝑢𝑐𝑘, 𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑧𝑦-𝑙𝑢𝑐𝑘 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚."
If street-fights pit us in a race to the bottom -- and takes the industry with it -- cooperation can take the industry much higher.
David Brown's article (link in comments) speaks to a contractor's awareness of her/his competition, and the context one is competing in.
The quote from his article, above, made me think about relationships with competitors, because we can often feel like we're in a street fight, especially if you've got a competitive streak a mile wide inside you.
I may hate losing more than I love winning -- my internal jury is still out on that -- but what I do know is contractors can both cooperate in service of better results for our people, our industry, and our customers, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 remain fair and hardy competitors at the same time.
A posture of always yielding to the street-fighter in us just slows our collective growth.
And then, we can't serve our station to our owners as well as we could, or should.
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