---
id: "contrarian-competitor-collaboration"
type: "contrarian-insight"
source_timestamps: ["§ Reskilling Takes a Village"]
tags: ["contrarian-insight", "ecosystem", "industry-coalitions"]
related: ["action-partner-with-ecosystem"]
challenges: "The conventional view that companies must hoard talent and compete fiercely with industry peers for skilled workers."
sources: ["reskilling"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-reskilling"
originDay: 10
articleStem: "hbr-edu-34-reskilling-in-age-of-ai"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2023/09/reskilling-in-the-age-of-ai"
sourceTitle: "Reskilling in the Age of AI"
---
# Collaborate with competitors on talent rather than fighting over it

**Contrarian insight.** *Challenges the conventional view that companies must hoard talent and compete fiercely with industry peers for skilled workers.*

Instead of viewing industry peers purely as competitors for a limited talent pool, companies should **team up to run joint training efforts, build shared [[concept-skill-taxonomy|skill taxonomies]], and pool resources** for developing cutting-edge AI skills that are too new for any single organization to tackle alone. This is paradigm five of [[framework-five-paradigms]] ("Reskilling Takes a Village") in action; operationalized by [[action-partner-with-ecosystem]] (industry coalitions, NGOs like [[entity-year-up|Year Up]] and OneTen, and academic institutions).