Estratégia e o particular

Estratégia e o particular, o ser diferente, o ser único, mais do que ser o melhor:

"Against the idea that firms operate in competitively efficient environments there are strong intuitions that every firm has to be a “quasi-monopoly” and exploit the particularities of its products, processes, people, and engagements. No two firms can occupy exactly the same economic opportunity space.[Moi ici: O velho Gause e os seus protozoários]
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Strategic work is ultimately about specifics and so more about practice than the analysis of generalizations captured with language.
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Real strategic work is about finding a way through the thicket of principles and particulars, hoping for the wisdom of Solomon and resisting the cop-out of raising one principle over all other aspects—for human situations always mingle both.
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Academics tend to dismiss matrices, preferring rigorous deductions, proofs, and carefully defined generalities that suggest theories. [Moi ici: Este trecho faz-me lembrar muitas conversas no Twitter onde tenho de debater com crentes em leis económicas como se fossem leis newtonianas, gerais e automáticas, com econs em vez de humanos, com maximizers em vez de satisficers] They are less interested in synthetic statements because they apply to particulars. But strategists are always working with particulars and so have limited interest in theoretical statements."

Trechos retirados de "Business Strategy - Managing Uncertainty, Opportunity, and Enterprise" de  J.-C. Spender.