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…naïve entrepreneurs often find that better products don’t always win – especially if a large number of users have already adopted a competing product.
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Once users have invested the effort to acquire a skill, they are less likely to switch to a competing product.
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User habits are hard to break and confer powerful competitive advantages to any company fortunate enough to successfully create them.
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…agility can enable a successful young firm to run circles around more mature competitors.
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Nothing is as powerful in opening masses of minds… creating a sense of urgency around a big competitive opportunity than role modeling.
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…the more adept [an organization] becomes at dealing with a hypercompetitive environment… the more those skills become a part of its DNA or culture.
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In America’s information economy, we frame our competitive advantage in terms of knowledge and innovation.
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With the digital sea swelling in sameness and overwhelmed in information, a powerful brand – built not on a product but on a personal message – has become a competitive advantage.
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Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.
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…most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of a team, but that is exactly what is required.
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