The article is entitled, 'Competition, Not Competitors' by Ramesh Srinivasan. The two seem so similar but when we think along of what he points out, the way of thinking could be changed loei ka.
The author: '....too much time being spent ......on analysing competitors, their tactics and motives.......if the competitor comes to know that you are so concerned about all their moves, they may make moves.....only to get you concerned.'
'The primary job of your competitors is to distract you from your purpose, your goals.'
Ptk: So true in our situation when we started introducing TQA/EdPEx na ka....it's become one of the issues raised for discussion with how and why, etc.
For me, with or without this question about competitors, Thai universities always think of competing with their Thai universities yoo laew na ka. Questions are that, 'Have we tried too much or overdone it?', or 'Have we simply raised as an issue of complaint without much in action?', or 'Have we felt concerned about competitors over our purpose and goals?'
The author: 'Your competition, however, serve to raise the benchmark for your growth plans. Your true competition.....remind you that you too coujld be doing things as well as they are doing.'
'Competitors invoke competitive emotions such as envy, rage, fear......your competition should invoke respect and admiration in you......In effect, an obsession with competitors will engage you in a 'deadly embrace' while attention to competition will show you avenues for your own advancement.'
'You are your best competition-to be better than you were last week, last year or even yesterday.'
Ptk: It's very self-assesment and self-reflection oriented approach to do the very best every day to progress toward the goals set ka. Competitors only help us see the benchmark we may wish to reach and to stimulate our enthusiasm and energy to explore how they can and whether we could pick out some strategies or whether it is us really to pursue along the same paths.....all for our own advancement in our universities na ka.
Enjoy reading it with some hope that our universities see the competition in their own work more than make efforts to compete against another Thai university. In today's situation of our quality of education, university performance has become one of the few process and results that could revive and step up our advancement out of the 'lost decade' we have painfully witnessed ka.
Let's enter into our own self competition! We can kaaaa!
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