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Every sports fan knows the story of a competitive sports team peak at the right time on the road to win a championship. The Pittsburgh Steelers won the Super Bowl in 2006, even if they have had the best record in second in their division. In addition, they had to overcome the huge hurdle of playing three straight playoff games on the road in front of hostile crowds. Entering the tournament, the Steelers are not favorites to win a championship. But they do.

The level of competition they face brings out the best in the Steelers.

In any competition on the field is needed to foster the development of participants. A capitalist economy is developing the capacity of individuals, businesses and organizations of the competition, winning some, a failure, all contribute to the smooth flow of innovation is the cornerstone of a dynamic society.

Entrepreneurs are the main purveyors of new ideas and creativity, particularly in the United States. The fact that competition is so brutal, aggressive and ubiquitous opportunities is of great use in respect of entrepreneurs and high peak motivated. inventors expect that competitors will be any attempt to circumvent the new features included in their product. This anticipation motivates them to create value-added features than others to respond to competition and provide consumers with utility costs and novelty.

Why the private company much more efficient than public agencies. The answer of all: the competition! There is a post office ineffective. There are many competitors in the parcel delivery service (Fedex, DHL, UPS, etc.) The post office is funded: private companies must compete for market share, efficiency and profit. They may go out of business, the Post never will.

Each airline run by the State (Alitalia, Air France, Varig, etc.) is bankrupt. At the same time, new private carriers (EasyJet, Ryan Air, etc.) enter the market and prosperous. The competition creates opportunities and business models penalizes static.

Computer Associates, Wang, Digital Equipment, Gateway and many other companies are ahead of Dell Computer in the assembly and marketing of personal computers. Dell has managed to dramatically while almost all pioneers leading companies are either, significantly reduced or merged. Dell entered this category of product with a brutally competitive business model new (custom production and direct sale). This model has proven wildly disruptive profitable and popular with consumers. Dell continues to evolve and new technologies in a constant effort to continually reinvent itself and remain competitive.

Revlon 35 years ago was the dominant brand in the cosmetics world. Ultima has been the central luxury Revlon, Revlon has dominated the middle and realistic is a giant in the beauty salons. Revlon founder Charles Revson, has been an innovator and a visionary. He once famously commented, "I do not sell lipstick, I sell hope"! Unfortunately, after his death 25 years ago, the company was run by a series of financial bean counters. Innovation has been minimized. Risk was released. Revlon has not had success of a major product from the perfume, Charlie 25 years ago. Now, Revlon is a shell of it former self glorious. Ultima does not exist. innovative competitors such as Estee Lauder, L'Oreal, Redken and Paul Mitchell, Mac, Bobbie Brown and many others have chipped and picked up Revlon is almost a corpse. Competition forces companies to innovate and evolve, or die: the witness Revlo.