[foolishdream]

You're reframing. "Tough but fair" is how you treat coworkers, employees, investors, and others who you interact with regularly. But it doesn't give you an edge in becoming relentlessly effective.

What do you do when your competitor is willing to break rules that you are not? Tread moral and legal grey areas that you do not? Take advantage of Facebook API's to spam users? How about spamming Craigslist? Submitting thousands of fake car requests to bog down your service and drivers?

Do you avoid all this low hanging fruit? Or do you take advantage of these growth opportunities and hope that you're so successful these shady tactics become afterthoughts?