Independent Thinking » pirates http://www.steigmancommunications.com Business. Communications. Social Media. Strategy. | Daria Steigman | Steigman Communications, LLC Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:22:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Rewrite the Rules–and Thrive http://www.steigmancommunications.com/2009/06/02/rewrite-the-rules-and-thrive/ http://www.steigmancommunications.com/2009/06/02/rewrite-the-rules-and-thrive/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:03:43 +0000 Daria Steigman http://www.steigmancommunications.com/?p=566

Have you ever beaten out a bigger competitor to win business? How did you succeed?

Succeeding in business is all about understanding your competitive advantages and playing to them. For entrepreneurs and many small business owners, that can also mean leveraging lean operations and structural advantages to rewrite the rules to level the playing field.

Peter Bregman’s great post looks at Somali pirates, schoolyard games, and major league baseball to show how it’s important to “play the game you know you can win, even if it means inventing it yourself.” It’s worth the read.

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