When you try to be good at everything while your competitors are trying to do the same, you’re doing the opposite of differentiating. You’ll basically converge on 3 for every attribute that customers could care about. Look at how Southwest…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxEEGldE9dQ
Youngme Moon, Harvard Business School professor, talks with Verne Harnish about what it takes to be different.