{"id":8667,"date":"2020-01-08T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=8667"},"modified":"2020-01-08T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T20:41:09","slug":"how-having-the-right-kind-of-rival-can-help-you-thrive-in-a-changing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/how-having-the-right-kind-of-rival-can-help-you-thrive-in-a-changing-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How having the right kind of rival can help you thrive in a changing world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Simon Sinek&#8217;s new book, The Infinite Game, he demonstrates that seeing our competition as a worthy rival is critically important to the sustainability of our businesses.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/ideas.ted.com\/how-having-the-right-kind-of-rival-can-help-you-thrive-in-a-changing-world\/\">How having the right kind of rival can help you thrive in a changing world<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Professor James P. Carse has argued that there are two types of games: finite games and infinite games. In finite games, the players are known, the rules are fixed, and the end point, winners and losers are all clear, as in a game of football or chess.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Simon Sinek&#8217;s new book, The Infinite Game, he demonstrates that seeing our competition as a worthy rival is critically important to the sustainability of our businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/tedideas.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/10\/web_ready_rivals_marinamunn.jpg?w=1500","fifu_image_alt":"How having the right kind of rival can help you thrive in a changing world","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-8667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-leadership","9":"tag-thought_leadership"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8669,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667\/revisions\/8669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}