Can any of your work on sustainable competitive advantage for nations and companies be usefully applied to individuals’ career? MP: When you’re building a career, you’re building a skill base, a knowledge base, and your human capital. You want to expose yourself to the best ideas and to the best training and to the best experiences you can have. At the end of the day, like in a strategy, you want to have some distinctive assets. You want to have some unique contribution that you’re well-equipped to make a
Source: Michael Porter on Creating Competitive Advantage for Yourself | HBR Ascend