“The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.” PeopleMayCertainCompanyEnvyGenerositySensitivityCompetitiveness Author:Alain de Botton
“There are many examples of companies and countries that have improved their competitiveness and efficiency by adopting open source strategies. The creation of skills through all levels is of fundamental importance to both companies and countries.” CountryLevelsCompanyExampleCreationSourceSkillsImportanceFundamentalsStrategyEfficiencyAdoptingCompetitivenessOpen Source Author:Mark Shuttleworth
“Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.” PeopleProblemCompanySmartHungerCompetitivenessReally SmartProblem SolversSales People Author:Ben Horowitz
“Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalization is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.” WorldMeanChildrenCountryDarkCompanyOppositesAccountsWorkersInternationalCornersPursuitForestsLabourGlobalizationFree MarketPitsCompetitivenessEmployingCorners Of The WorldInternationalismComplete Opposites Author:Anita Roddick
“Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are cutting wages to become more competitive, that's not really more competitive. It's raising the skill and the efficiency of those workers so that they can support and sustain that higher wage.” IfsAbilityCompanySupportCuttingHigherSkillsStandardsWorkersAverageDefinedEfficiencyImprovingWagesMaintainingStandards Of LivingCompetitiveness Author:Michael Porter
“I feel very lucky to be making good work still. The confidence of youth, or that sort of competitiveness you get when you're 22 or 23, the impatience - that's probably been tempered. Hopefully I'm slightly better company.” FeelsStillsCompanyYouthLuckyHopefullyGood WorkImpatienceCompetitiveness Author:Cillian Murphy