The Death of Competition

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Summary: Business=Ecosystem...?, Inconclusive thesis
Review: This book is much over-hyped. It does build on the ecosystem research of Margaret Wheatly. However, the title is misleading in that the book is really about how old-style individualistic competition is dead. Piggy-backs on existing works by others such as Margaret Wheatly, Tom Peters, Alvin Toffler, John Naisbitt, Paul Hawken, etc. Main thesis is inconclusive and weakly supported by text.

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Summary: This book is really about leadership and vision.
Review: Today's buisness environment needs leadership. There are many well studied reports about the changing face of competition -- but few are able to integrate them with the leaders that Mr. Moore uses in his examples. The author has done a great job of presenting the "state-of-the-union" of the competition-cooperation landscape with his biology metaphore. He has done an outstanding job of illustrating the quality and nature of the leaders who led their companies through the various stages he describes. This book is worth reading and re-reading for leaders and leader wannabees.