I read this post by Marc Suster and thought of a previous manager and company I worked for. They were always belittling the competition. They claimed they had the only logical solution. This looked bad to subordinates like me, I can only imagine what it looked like to potential customers. After two years with this company I saw how this attitude really damaged them mentally in how they think about themselves and their competition. If you can be honest in saying what your competition is good at then you can find the truth in what you're good at. As it was, this company just deluded itself into thinking they were the best at everything and no one took them seriously or believed they could deliver. Employees were under the delusion that this company was the center of the universe.
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