Which is more important in today s society, cooperation or competition?

The two actually complement each other, but from a societal point of view, competition may be even more important.

In the book "Civilization", it was mentioned that Western civilization has collided with civilizations around the world in the past 500 years, but basically can become the final victor, although Western civilization is no longer the center of the world, but still affects many countries, such as Liberia, such as Australia, and so on.

In the development of Western civilization in the past 500 years, it has been able to win many times thanks to their six major advantages, one of which is competition. Here's an example:

In 1406, our Ming Dynasty was established, and gradually recuperated, and the population and economy achieved considerable development. On the other hand, in Europe at this time, large and small city-states abounded, and the melee between city-states almost accounted for most of the development of European society, and almost all countries were in a state of war.

Europe in such a state has a different harvest, first of all, the innovation of military technology, cold weapons can no longer meet the needs of everyone to fight, hot ** began to be invented and put on the stage. Secondly, it is not enough to fight all day long, so the various city-states began to try to increase their revenues, established a more reasonable tax system when the land could not be expanded, and also issued ** public bonds. And because there is a war all day long, no one can unify the whole of Europe, so no one can completely ban the exploration of the sea.

These three harvests may not seem like a great thing today, but for the Ming Dynasty of the same era, because of its economic wealth, although the technology and invention were also ahead of the world level, it still went to the road of changing the dynasty. The European countries, on the other hand, were no longer dominated by war, but began the Age of Discovery, began to expand their territory, and finally became the prototype of the world we see today.

Therefore, from a societal point of view, competition is even more important.

There are no eternal friends (cooperation), there are no eternal enemies (competition), only eternal interests.

If you're just competitive, you're probably going to lose. Personally, your ability and energy are limited, what you can accomplish by one person is limited, and the value that a strong person can create independently is limited. You can't afford a car alone, and you can't afford a building alone.

Therefore, in most cases, it is necessary to cooperate with others to create value and create benefits together. <>

However, we should not only talk about cooperation and not about competition. If you are a company and the other company is B, your products and services are the same, and the market is easy and limited, then there is a market share of B.

If it's bigger, your share will be smaller, so there's a little bit of competition between you as well. Others will not buy things from you plainly, you have to make the customer feel worthwhile in terms of product quality, service, **, etc., and he will pay for it. <>

However, if you and B supply to another company C at the same time, you may have a relationship in this case, because C may use your competitive relationship with B to lower the price of you, and eventually your profits will drop very low or even no profit. In this case, you need to fully communicate with B, and the two parties will agree on a reasonable reserve price, and finally form a cooperation between both parties and C, everyone will be profitable. <>

Therefore, we should not only look at competition or cooperation, but also judge the situation. When it is time to compete, we should strive to compete, and when it is time to cooperate, we should put the form and cooperate with our hearts. In our society, cooperation in competition and competition in cooperation is the norm.

In contrast, cooperation is more important.

The world is a buffet

Today's world is extremely rich in materials. Everyone can get what they want by their own ability, and there is no life-and-death struggle.

For example, a bubble tea shop next to my company was very popular before, and I queued up every day, but I often couldn't grab it.

I found that some people love pearls, some people love milk tea, and some people only want to drink 1 4 cups of ......

So I made a microphone form, everyone registered before ordering milk tea, and often 10 people ordered 3-4 cups were enough. And take turns lining up, so that everyone can enjoy what they want the most with the least amount of time.

To put it another way, competitors can also become collaborators

I used to work for IBM as a human resources businessman.

The most rewarding thing at that time was through communicationBroke the barriers before the first merchant and formed an alliance.

Before I was in charge of this business, there was vicious competition between the top companies, and IBM also took this opportunity to dominate the negotiations.

Frequent sudden price reductions or temporary unreasonable demands.

Because it is a competition between five ** businessmen, everyone is basically giving in, otherwise they are worried that they will be out.

After I took over, I found that I would run at a loss if I did this again, so at a procurement meeting, when other ** businessmen were criticized, I did not fall into the ground, and took the initiative to help him solve the siege, promising to help him mend the pot together.

This practice allowed me to win the initial trust of other ** businessmen, and I visited them one by one in the follow-up to sincerely communicate with everyone about the common difficulties and the bottom line that we stick to together.

Treat each other with sincerity and discuss ...... with benefitIn the end, we resisted the malicious price reduction wind together.

Later, I also reached a consensus with the customer in the cooperation: to do a good job in the shortest time, the best cost, and the lowest risk.

Driven by this common interest and goal, we work together flawlessly time and time again.

Therefore, as long as you can focus on the common good, you can always find a way to cooperate.

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A good planet together.

In today's increasingly complex society, cooperation and competition cannot be discussed in isolation, and different people and different situations should be treated differently.

1.For individuals

If you work in the workplace, you need to work together as a team to achieve results, and of course cooperation is more important, especially if you need to work with people with different skills. However, when individuals are faced with promotion or fighting for important resources, they may have to face competition, because there are more monks and less porridge, and how to win their share in the case of limited resources, many people must inevitably face competition. If you look at it horizontally in a larger dimension, everyone may need to compare with other people of the same type, and only if their ability is higher than others, it is easier to find a job in a good position, so for individuals, the importance of cooperation and competition is different.

2.For businesses

It can be a competitive relationship with peers, or it can be a cooperative relationship. In the past, competition between peers abounded, and even in order to get customers, malicious competition occurred frequently. In today's society, where there is an increasingly healthy social environment, it is possible for even peers to establish a cooperative relationship and jointly serve the same customer.

3.For larger organizations

For example, under the general principle of a harmonious society, countries also need to get along amicably, in order to ensure the stability of the people and the steady development of society, so cooperation is more important than competition.

Author: Carina, head of entrepreneurship education of a financial group listed on the New York Stock Exchange, certified manager of Tony Bozan Mind Map in the United Kingdom, and the signed author of Brain Map by Luo Ji Thinking. WeChat***:

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In today's fast-developing society, cooperation and competition, not so much who is more important, but rather the two are complementary to each other, there is competition in cooperation, there is also cooperation in competition, laymen look at the lively, insiders look at the doorway, business bigwigs compete fiercely, who knows that the private bigwigs are very good relations.

From large listed companies to small workplace departments, there is a relationship of cooperation and competition. It is a kind of wisdom to be able to properly handle the relationship between the two. In the workplace, the relationship with colleagues is both cooperation and competition.

A project requires the cooperation of members of the department, and colleagues are a strong competitor in the face of salary increases and promotions in the workplace. If you blindly focus on competition and ignore cooperation, even if you are promoted, you will not be able to do it well in the future.

However, we also need to compete. Competition will make people full of fighting spirit and make people progress. Nowadays, Internet companies are so fiercely competitive, but at the annual World Internet Conference, entrepreneurs gather together to communicate and achieve win-win cooperation.

We all know that in order to cooperate, everyone can cooperate seamlessly, but we can't maliciously slander for the sake of competition. Competition should be benign. Ma Yun once apologized to Ma Huateng in person for Alibaba's social software DingTalk, because DingTalk's promotional advertising words maliciously ridiculed WeChat.

These two people, one is the current richest man and the other is the former richest man, can be said to be the biggest competitors among the global Chinese, but in private, they will communicate with each other, and they will not say that you scold me, I scold you, and the fighting fish will be broken.

Therefore, there is no more important statement between cooperation and competition, but should be treated equally, cooperate and compete, and achieve a win-win situation.

In the workplace, your work is not just your work, it is the work that concerns the interests of the whole company. If something goes wrong in one of your teams, then it will be in the collective interest of the whole company, so in the workplace, it is more about teamwork.

Competition is only a manifestation of the whole team, it may be manifested in the competition between companies or departments, but it must be based on cooperation first. Without previous cooperation, there would be no competition later.

If you were to say that individual cooperation or competition is more important in the workplace, I would say that it depends on time. Alone, I think before the age of 30 should compete and strive for a better life; At the age of 30, the only thing that is more important is cooperation, to achieve a more stable working environment and one's own quality of life.

However, in contrast, I think that cooperation will be more important than competition, and it is impossible for one person to complete all the links in the workplace, and it needs the cooperation and cooperation of someone to complete it together. <>

I think it's important to cooperate, because a lot of work in society now needs to be done together.

Cooperation and competition is a topic we often talk about, some people feel that cooperation is more important, some people feel that competition is more important, in my personal opinion, with the continuous development of material living standards, the cooperation between people will become closer and closer, even if two people are competitors, or two companies are competitive enterprises, the cooperation between them will become more and more, this is the trend of the development of the times.

Cooperation will be a win-win situation.

Because everyone has the ability to boundary, and every company's business situation will be strong and weak, in such a situation, if we can cooperate with the outside, then we can significantly increase the odds of doing successful things. As the saying goes, not everyone can do everything well, and it is unrealistic to expect one person to be able to do all types of things.

Collaboration allows us to see ourselves.

When we cooperate with others, we can realize our own shortcomings, and at the same time be able to make up for our own shortcomings, we will find that each person or each enterprise has its own shining point, which is one of the reasons why he can achieve himself. If a person chooses to refuse to cooperate, then this person will rest on their laurels, and this principle is also common to enterprises. The relationship between cooperation and competition is delicate, and even if two parties are competing, it cannot prevent them from cooperating.

At the same time as cooperation, there is also competition.

This world is not black and white, when we look at problems, we should not see problems as right or wrong, this world is actually the relationship between cooperation and competition, we are always emphasizing the so-called cooperation, but we must also be aware of our own competition with others. If a person only cares about the so-called cooperation and does not think about competition, then this person is likely to weaken his ability in the hotbed of cooperation, so that he will slowly lose his competitiveness.

The meaning of cooperation in this sentence is as follows:

1. Cooperation refers to the activities of two or more individuals or groups to unite for a common purpose and coordinate for mutual benefit. Cooperation has a great social role, and the development and progress of human society are inseparable from cooperation.

2. Cooperation refers to the process of individuals or groups working together and collaborating to achieve common interests or common goals. Cooperation can promote the sharing of resources, the exchange and flow of knowledge and the complementarity of skills, so as to achieve collective advantages and sustainable development. Collaboration plays an important role in teamwork, social projects and international cooperation.