Article August 23, 1947 Issue

COMPETITION

MAURICE E. MOSHER

Perhaps one of the most perplexing situations a student of Christian Science in business has to fare is that of competitors and competition. No matter what business one may be in, he is at times faced with arguments that the field is overcrowded, that accounts and orders go to others for no apparently good reason, or that despite his best work and intention another seems to reap the benefit of his most thoughtful efforts.

In this human concept of business, keen and unrestricted competition is even considered to be healthy and profitable. Unfortunately, this viewpoint seems more often than not to be translated into justification of questionable practices, which are accepted because they seem prevalent.

This purblind sense of sharp competition sees business solely as an endeavor to gain something which another is attempting to obtain at the same time—an attempt to procure something of which another must therefore be deprived. Such a notion obviously implies limitation in regard to opportunity, supply, service, and recompense. In some cases there does not seem to be enough to go round, so that only the most able or fortunate of several competitors can possibly be successful.

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