Don't Kill the Competition

Or, why competition is good, and how to keep it from going bad

We rarely work in a vacuum. Whether building things or providing services, there's another team out there that's doing something similar. And this team threatens to capture some of our territory or prevent us from achieving a goal. Naturally, a sense of opposition develops, an us vs. them attitude. Sometimes this is healthy, and sometimes it is not. Here are four mentalities of opposition, four different categories that de...