{"id":1594,"date":"2005-07-23T18:28:49","date_gmt":"2005-07-23T18:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2005-07-23T18:28:49","modified_gmt":"2005-07-23T18:28:49","slug":"entrepreneurs_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1594","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneurs: Competing with the Big Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Peters offers up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tompeters.com\/entries.php?note=007977.php\">several useful tips<\/a> on competing with big organizations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Can the small player compete in a world of Citigroups and Bank of Americas? I said it was a lark. And I more or less meant it. That is, among other things, giants&mdash; &#8220;new tech,&#8221; CRM, etc notwithstanding&mdash; will always be clumsy and impersonal relative to an &#8220;intimate local&#8221; who is really out to make a dramatic difference.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Peters offers up several useful tips on competing with big organizations: Can the small player compete in a world of Citigroups and Bank of Americas? I said it was a lark. And I more or less meant it. That is, among other things, giants&mdash; &#8220;new tech,&#8221; CRM, etc notwithstanding&mdash; will always be clumsy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}