Collaborative Advantage

Collaborative Advantage

Collaborative Advantage

Today, we are troubled by various global issues. Environmental problems, poverty, diseases are few of the common problems in our modern society. People are suffering and dying this very moment. Although some would conveniently blame it to others for what had happened, each of the problems is now moving closer to our doorsteps. Like it or not, H1N1 flu, floods, crimes, terrorist attacks could happen to anyone of us regardless of where we are.

As we are closely linked to each other through globalization, previous local issues are increasing turning into global problems. It has become difficult for one to overcome the problems with individual efforts. Issues like global warming, poverty, and pollutions require the world to come together just to mitigate the effects on our future. However, if we look back in our history, many of us have cultivated strong competitive culture that keeps us from working together towards common interests. Countries went to war to compete for lands and natural resources, business organizations tried to outdo each other to gain profits and market leaderships, families and individuals fought with each other for wealth, status and ego. Eventually, resources are wasted on beating the competitions, while they could have been better used to improve the current states of our world. The same stories are still repeating themselves as of today and in the near future.

Why can't we take a moment to rethink what these have brought us? Can we find another way to motivate our progress other than trying to beat our competitions? Instead of trying to emerge as winners by making losers out of our competitors, why can't we share the winners' podium? After all, we come with the same purpose in search for better lives, who are we to think that we deserve better, and other don't?

We know that competitions lead to rich and poor gaps and inequality that have become the source of conflicts in human history. The world has become too small for us to strive and rob to feed our greed. This behaviour needs to be changed. Like it or not, we depend on each other to survive. We are interdependent rather than independent. We need to help each other to survive rather than killing each other to live. The new world needs a new thinking that is to collaborate and not to compete, to help rather than to fight each other. The advantage is for people who can collaborate more, and not those who think they can compete better. The key is to move from being competitive to become collaborative. So next time, if you find yourself a competitor, let's try to make he or she to become your collaborator.

It's time to use our collective wisdoms to build our "Collaborative Advantage" rather than "Competitive Advantage".

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