Daily Archives: March 23, 2016
Coopertition
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare
Robotics season – it’s intense. It’s time for another repeat, this one about the team and the world that our kids are learning to navigate even as they create it.
Our team, 2491 No Mythic, is set for the North Star Robotics tournament next week. It’s an event that teaches all the aspects of engineering and entrepreneurship – design, build, teamwork, and budgeting. This year’s competition also brings back an important concept in any business – Coopertition. The teams competing in a match can bump up all their scores at once if they work together.
It goes against the sporting aspects of the match in many ways, but it is critical. In business, companies have always worked together for mutual benefit even as they have competed. Cooperation can be a powerful force for change or a descent into stagnation. No matter what, business has never been purely a “survival…
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