Focus on your competitive advantages and outperform competitors.

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Switching from plain vanilla to indexed stock options, in particular, focuses top executives on making their company outperform competitors and the market as a whole, which would better serve to align executive and shareholder interests.

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And in any case, it is hotly debated whether any individual, no matter how qualified, can consistently outperform his competitors in a relatively efficient capital market.

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They outperform their competitors because when everyone knows how to make money and everyone knows what the score is, then people can self organize and respond quickly as events unfold and unexpected things happen.

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The stock chart below shows that General Mills efforts have helped its shares outperform some big competitors, and to hold its own against others.

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Businesses that adopt the practice first can outperform their later adopting competitors with the knowledge they can gain.

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Much as Coca-Cola's success results from soft-drink recipes unknown to its competitors, the success of investors is almost by definition a function of their individual analysis, which, if superior to that of competitors, allows them to outperform.

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Coca-Cola ( KO - news - people )'s success results from soft-drink recipes unknown to its competitors, the success of investors is almost by definition a function of their individual analysis, which, if superior to that of competitors, allows them to outperform.

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