Step 7Cooperate for Success

Life Is Based on Cooperation

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

When I went to the Wharton School of Business and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, our favorite Christmas present for our parents was a T-shirt that had two businessmen on it. They were shaking hands to seal a business deal and smiling at each other, but behind their backs, they were holding a knife and a baseball bat in the other hand. It made our parents laugh. However, it also showed the problematic ethical foundation in the financial industry, which ultimately led to the global ...

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