Non Competitive Strategy PGP 200709 Session 12 contd' Amar KJR Nayak, Ph'D'

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Non Competitive StrategyPGP 2007-09Session
1-2 contd.Amar KJR Nayak, Ph.D.
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• 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

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• You are indeed a Promise
• You are a promise
• You are a possibility
• You are a promise
• With a capital P
• You 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Prerequisite for Student
• Question without fear
• Sincerity integrity
• Enjoy working hard

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• Our learning Approach
• 50 Recharge - What is it? v/s 100
• 30 Review - Question the present
• 10 Reflect - On method purpose
• 9 Refresh - Provide new insight
• 1 Inspire - Teacher-Student-Teacher

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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.

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Notion of Competition
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Competition

• What is competition?
• Etymology
• To compete is competere (latin)
• To seek together
• To Strive together

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Contradictions in meaning value in
Competition(basic structure)

• 1. Dominant model of competition
• Pay-off extrinsic to the activity itself are
  conferred on one party at the expense of others
• 2. Spontaneous
• No structure of extrinsic and exclusionary
  pay-offs is imposed on action
• the well-known and systematic pathologies of
  competitive conflictviolence, cheating,
  authoritarianism, sexism, drug-taking and so
  onare a law-like consequence of the dominant
  structure of competition and not a problem of
  competition as such

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Issues in Competition

• Size Level
• Competition in Economics Business
• Internal competition
• Alfred Sloan, GM, 1920s
• Law Anti-Trust Laws
• No cartel, No abusive behavior, MA

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Study of Competition

• Psychology
• Natural urge of competition
• Sociology
• Group dynamics to show how competition emerges
• Anthropology
• Study the history and prehistory of competition

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Competitiveness - IO

• New empirical Industrial Organization Model
• Structure Conduct Performance
• Strategy Structure System
• Chandler, Alfred
• Purpose Process People
• Bartlett Ghoshal

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Hyper competitiveness

• Karen Horneys
• theories on neurosis
• Turn any activity into a competition
• Feel threatened if they find themselves losing

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No ContestThe 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

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Competition different ways

• Competitively
• Cooperatively
• Independently

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• 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

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Some Administrative issues

• Group Assignment
• (exploration analytical in nature)
• Group of 4, Make a List of Groups, CR
• Assignment 1 Module 1 2
• Assignment 2 Module 3 (any of your choice
  including the Reference Books suggested)
• Assignment 3 Panel Discussion
• Sharing the experience of a Live Project (FAO)