💥 Is our obsession with competitive advantage holding us back? 💥

Imagine this: the frameworks we use for business and leadership today—our strategies, models, and systems—are not fixed truths.

They’re just experiments. Experiments in how humans organise, create, and adapt.

For 10,000 years, we’ve operated under the banner of compete and control.

It’s the capitalist ethos—win at all costs, dominate the market, edge out the competition.

But if we zoom out and take an evolutionary perspective, we see a different story.

For 200,000 years, when we first began to communicate, the most significant advantage humanity has ever had is not competition—it’s creative collaboration.

From tribal survival to technological revolutions, we thrive when we innovate together. When we work with, not against.

🌲 Here’s the challenge: we lack an “ecology check.” 🦉

🌟 In nature, every system must adapt, harmonise, and evolve—or it collapses. 🌀

🚜 Yet, many of our current systems are designed to exploit, extract, and control, with little regard for the broader consequences. 🚜

What if we flipped the narrative?

What if we recognised that our businesses, teams, and leadership styles are part of a greater evolutionary experiment—one where collaboration, not competition, is the ultimate advantage? 🧐

This isn’t just an idealistic vision. It’s practical and urgent.

🌍 In a world facing complexity and crises, we need to ask: are we designing systems that help us adapt and thrive together—or are we blindly doubling down on outdated paradigms?

In the accompanying video, I’ll unpack this further, to explore why creative collaboration is not just an option but an evolutionary necessity.

Let’s innovate the way we innovate.

What are your thoughts?

How can we shift our focus from short-term advantage to long-term evolution?

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