Non Competitive StrategyPGP 2007-09

Session 1-2 contd.

Amar KJR Nayak, Ph.D.

Notion of Strategy Making “A Game with dough”

Crafting Strategy“Henry Mintzberg”

Creative process, deliberate & emergent, first hand experience, craftsperson feel, peripheral vision, Natural synthesis of the future, present & past

Intensive involvement, iterative, accidental, method & PURPOSE

You are indeed a Promise

You are a promiseYou are a possibilityYou are a promiseWith a capital PYou are a great big bundle of potentiality

You can learn to hear the hidden wisdom, and you can make the right choice

And As you promise to be , you can be anything that you want to be

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power

to imagine better.

J.K. Rowling, 2008 Harvard University Graduation Ceremony

Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

Prerequisite for Student

Question without fear

Sincerity & integrity

Enjoy working hard

Our learning Approach

50% Recharge - What is it? v/s 100%30% Review - Question the present10% Reflect - On method & purpose 9% Refresh - Provide new insight 1% Inspire - Teacher-Student-

Teacher

NCS Content

The three modules are inter-linked. Understand the assumptions and their limitations in the existing theories and practice in Module 1 & 2 will help you to appreciate the variables that emerge in Module 3.

The final objective is to synthesize a new model of economic activity that takes into account the rational economic variables and the apparently irrational human aspects.

Notion of Competition

Competition

What is competition?

Etymology

To compete is competere (latin)

To seek togetherTo Strive together

Contradictions in meaning & value in Competition(basic structure)

1. Dominant model of competitionPay-off extrinsic to the activity itself are conferred on one

party at the expense of others

2. SpontaneousNo structure of extrinsic and exclusionary pay-offs is imposed

on action

the well-known and systematic pathologies of competitive conflict—violence, cheating, authoritarianism, sexism, drug-

taking and so on—are a law-like consequence of the dominant structure of competition and not a problem of

competition as such

Issues in Competition

Size & Level

Competition in Economics & BusinessInternal competition

Alfred Sloan, GM, 1920s

Law: Anti-Trust Laws

No cartel, No abusive behavior, M&A

Study of Competition

PsychologyNatural urge of competition

SociologyGroup dynamics to show how competition

emerges

AnthropologyStudy the history and prehistory of

competition

Competitiveness - IO

New empirical Industrial Organization Model

Structure – Conduct – Performance

Strategy – Structure – SystemChandler, Alfred

Purpose – Process – PeopleBartlett & Ghoshal

Hyper competitiveness

Karen Horney’s theories on neurosis

Turn any activity into a competition

Feel threatened if they find themselves losing

No Contest–The Case against CompetitionAlfie Kohn

4 myths of competition

Competition is an unavoidable fact of life

Competition motivates us to do our best(grade – capitalism)

Contest provide the best, if not the only way to have good time

Competition build character

Competition – different ways

Competitively

Cooperatively

Independently

“The world of individualistic competition is experienced every

day; the world of harmonious unanimity is fully realized only in sporadic flashes of togetherness, glimpses of what might be if only people would cooperate and their purposes reinforce, rather than

undercut, one another”

Robert Bellah

Some Administrative issues

Group Assignment (exploration & analytical in nature)

Group of 4, Make a List of Groups, CR

Assignment 1: Module 1 & 2Assignment 2: Module 3 (any of your choice

including the Reference Books suggested)Assignment 3: Panel Discussion

Sharing the experience of a Live Project (FAO)