-"Fast" survival.

Nowadays, with the rapid development of science and technology, it has become a worldwide trend to attach importance to scientific and technological innovation. The technology update speed is greatly accelerated, and the product life cycle is obviously shortened. In a sense, the competition among enterprises has become the competition of technology and management innovation speed, and whoever is fast can take the lead and win the initiative. Because of this, many successful enterprises regard "fast" as one of the elements of their competitive strategy. Silicon valley in the United States is day and night. "Day" is no longer the unit of measurement of time, because you may wake up and your field has been reshuffled. The competition in the computer industry in Taiwan Province Province is often that A introduced a new model, which was bought back by rival B as soon as it went on the market. Then from the user's point of view, B spent an all-night anatomical analysis to find out the shortcomings, and then launched its own improved model within three days to seize the market. Haier Group pays attention to the rapid launch of new products, and strives to "step by step" in the market and make a new "cake". Last year, it developed a new product on average every working day and applied for two patents every year, with the contribution rate of new products reaching 70%.

Where does the technological advantage come from?

-Talent is the key to high-tech competition.

The decisive factor of scientific and technological advantages is the strength of scientific and technological talents. The World Science Report published by UNESCO points out that the proportion of scientific and technological personnel in a country's population is directly proportional to the country's economic strength. The average number of scientific and technological personnel per 10,000 people is 94. 1 in Japan, 75.6 in the United States, 59.2 in Germany, 565,438+0.6 in France, 40 in Britain, 265,438+0 in Central and Eastern Europe, 65,438+00 in newly industrialized countries (regions) in Asia and 654,000 in Russia. The lack of scientific and technological talents has become a serious obstacle for us to participate in the world high-tech competition.

"Asphyxiation" in Tropical Rainforest

Survival of the fittest is the law of nature.

Everything exists in competition, and plants are no exception. The strangulation phenomenon peculiar to the tropical rain forest reflects the fierce competition in the rain forest. Strangers in the tropical rain forest are mostly plants called banyan trees, such as Ficus angustifolia. After the fruits of these banyan trees were eaten by birds, the seeds were not digested and excreted in other trees with feces. Under suitable conditions, they germinate and grow many air roots. The outgrown aerial roots climb to the ground along the host trunk, insert into the soil, and desperately rob the host plants of nutrients and water.

At the same time, these air roots are getting thicker and thicker, and the branches form a network system to tightly encircle the trunk of the host tree. With the passage of time, the longer and more air roots strangle plants, the longer and more lush. The strangled host plant will eventually die because of the oppression of external strangulation and the lack of internal nutrients, and finally the strangler will take its place and become an independent tree.

Proust paid tribute to his competitors.

-Competition brings development.

As we all know, the discoverer of constant ratio law is French scientist Proust. However, in order to explore this scientific mystery, he and Bei Souris had an uncompromising debate for nine years, and both sides denied and * summarized how many times the other side tried to prove the correctness of their views. Finally, Proust became the winner of the competition. What do they think of the result of the game? Proust was not arrogant because of his victory. He sincerely thanked Bessel for saying, "If it weren't for your difficulties, it would be difficult for me to study the law of constant ratio in depth." He solemnly declared to the whole world: "Bessel has half the credit for discovering the law of constant ratio." Is Bay Souris depressed? No. On the contrary, he was very happy to find the truth in the scientific debate. He wrote to Proust: "It is gratifying that you have discovered the law of fixed ratio. The nine-year debate has achieved results. I salute you, the discoverer of truth! "

Eagle competition

-Survival of the fittest

Every spring, eagles lay eggs and give birth to children, usually two eggs at a time. Young eagles compete from the moment they hatch. As soon as their parents brought back food, they immediately opened their mouths and shouted, hoping to cram food into their mouths. Every time, the eagle will raise its head and scream to feed the children. However, every time the eagle with strong physique and good physical quality eats food, because its head is held higher. In a few days, the weaker baby eagle will starve to death. This is the law of survival of the fittest in nature.

"scramble for talent"

-A new concept of human resource competition in multinational corporations

The thinking of multinational companies competing for human resources has changed, from competing for ready-made talents to looking for talents. Motorola started the "Hope Star Scholarship", and the person in charge of this project said that they turned the pure funding to the cultivation of talents. Intel Corporation and China Association for Science and Technology reached a formal agreement to form four teams of China middle school students to participate in a special competition in the United States-the Intel Scientific Talent Selection Competition, which is known as the Little Nobel Prize, with a total prize of $6,543,800+2,000. In addition, multinational companies compete for information in advance. Domestic enterprises generally believe that talent competition occurs before and after graduation from university, while multinational companies advance the time of talent competition. For example, when Microsoft hears that there are gifted children, it will come to you. Some children began to get paid at Microsoft when they were in middle school. In Microsoft, this is called "competing for talent".

Restore the tiger's strength

-competition is the need of survival.

At the National Zoo in Peru, a protected jaguar lives in a tiger park covering an area of 65,438+0,500 acres. It lies in the air-conditioned tiger house all day, eating and sleeping. But since the staff put three leopards into the tiger park, it has never returned to the tiger house, either standing on the top of the mountain whistling or rushing down the mountain to wander on the grass. It began to hunt by itself, instead of just eating the meat given by the breeder as before, and it successfully gave birth to a tiger cub from a female tiger in Paraguay.

The "competition" of art masters

-just competition, * * * and progress.

Before liberation, Mr. Cheng studied under Mr. Mei Lanfang. At that time, Cheng was not famous. In order to give Cheng more learning opportunities, Mei Lanfang reserved good tickets for Cheng to watch the performance every night.

During the period of 1947, Mei Lanfang and Cheng performed in Shanghai at the same time, Mei Lanfang was at the China Theatre and Cheng was at the Tianchan Stage. In order to raise the price of Cheng's voice, Mei Lanfang took the following measures: First, every day, she took the initiative to ask what program Cheng was performing that night. If you find that the program arranged by the other party is the same as your own, change it on your own initiative and never repeat it with Cheng, so as not to affect the audience number of Cheng; Second, the performance fare should not exceed the process fare as far as possible to show the value and status of the journey.

At one time, two theaters in Shanghai were crowded with people every night, with bright lights inside and outside. The audience applauded the friendly "competition" between the two masters of art, and also applauded Mei Lanfang's noble morality and drama.

Only improve Panasonic, which was not invented.

-be good at finding patterns in competition.

Matsushita Electric Co., Ltd. of Japan has 23 state-of-the-art production laboratories. However, they have been adhering to the principle of "only improving, not inventing" of Mr. Matsushita, and have been improving the electrical patents bought by the company and the products of competitors. Mr. Matsushita believes that this has several advantages over invention: first, it saves time; The second is to reduce costs; The third is to ensure efficiency. For example, Panasonic has successfully improved Sony's "Beta Max" video recorder. Although Sony's video recorder first entered the market, Panasonic's improved video recorder has large capacity, small volume, reliable performance and low price. In the end, Panasonic made a lot of money.

Vases and stones

-* People's understanding of competition

There is a story in the Christian Bible: a stone fell on the vase and the vase broke; The vase fell on the stone, but it was still broken ... This story is that the sage of * warned his descendants to use this principle at any time, thus causing the situation that I am a stone and my competitor is a vase.