Competition is not health for you or your company and I know you've been told the exact opposite your whole life. But if you look at the most successful of companies and people you will find they have moved beyond the concept of competition and into the realm of domination. They seek to be first in the minds of their customer and their markets.
If competition is healthy, domination is like being completely immune. Take Apple do they compete, no they dominate! How about Intel, Starbucks, Exxon, Goldman Sacks, Google, and other behemoths? While competition may be healthy for the customer and even stimulate creation the reality is, anyone that is trying to be competitive is actually chasing some other idea or concept. Domination is an entirely different level of thinking and action. The giants literally don't play the game but make the rules to the game.
Benefits of Domination Thinking and Actions:
1) You are not chasing someone or something else.
2) You aren't a player in the game you are the game.
3) You are what others measure against.
4) You are thought of first.
Getting yourself and your organization to think in terms of domination and being first is covered in my upcoming book, If You're Not First, You're Last, How to Dominate the Competition. It is being released the first week in June and available for pre-orders now and already it looks like it will hit the New York Times Best Seller List. Let's face it who doesn't want to be in first and how can it not be the best position to be in when times are tough.
Grant Cardone, Author and International Speaker
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True segment dominators don't compete against others, they dominate their circumstances. It's true of legendary performers in sports, business, politics, EVERYTHING! That's not a small shift in thinking, it's a seizmic shift!
Are you like trying to get burnt?
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Cooperation is important too. Cooperation is satisfying.
A balance is needed.
"Domination" is not that balance.
Apple remained through determination, very hard work and wonderful creativity. Apple is still that kind of company. And if they ever fail to be, they would soon be history.
Nice try on this domination theory but it doesn't fly very well.
This type of thinking is why we're in the mess we are today, globally.
Domination with no accountability.
We're literally killing ourselves.
Disgusting.
That doesn't mean that competition is not healthy, that just means that competition is not the natural state of capitalism. It's still GOOD, it's just not good for the individual business!