I'm generally in the "Cooperation over competition" camp...
But, in response to your question, I suggest we consider the reasonably
well documented case from Tracey Kidder's wonderful book, "Soul of a New
Machine" which has lots of org learning examples.
In the book, the hero Tom West leads a team trying to build the next
generation computer for Data General. Besides the external competition,
Tom is spurred along by competition with the company's anointed design
talent at the new research site in North Carolina. As I read the book,
West's team has more urgency because of the competition.
On the other hand, there is no discussion of the impact on the losing
North Carolina team.
-- Rick
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Roxanne Abbas wrote:
> Would someone give me an example of competitive, i.e. win-lose, behavior
> within an organization that they feel is both good for the individual
> competitors and good for the organization?
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