@Thucydides
Ram Fish
@Thucydides · 3:43

Never stand in the path between your enemy and the cliff. They may decide to jump...

article image placeholderUploaded by @Thucydides
And it has a few interesting dimensions to it. The first one is your enemy jumping off the cliff. A lot of business planning started development and when you study game theory, you have an assumption that your competitor or adversary will take the best path. That said, we have seen multiple times in which companies counter as individuals for different reasons are self destructive in the business sense. Companies is a group of individuals and many companies are not always moving in the best path forward

#leadership #techleadership

@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:40

@Thucydides

And this whole concept of goodwill and I'm a nice person and sometimes I've been too nice and I know it's not strategic and I just chalk it up too well. It was a good thing to do, whatever. It'll come back to me. But I don't think on a larger scale, if I was running a company, that would be very appreciated
@arish
Arish Ali
@arish · 1:28

@Thucydides Co-opetition is good for large firms, but what about startups?

Hi, Ram. First of all, thank you so much for doing this series on Swell. Over the years I've known you, I have always enjoyed your nuggets of wisdom and I'm so grateful that you are sharing them on. So many more people can hear and benefit from those insights. So thank you for that. My kind of contribution to this conversation is in the context of startups
0:00
0:00