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Leading Thoughts for December 30, 2021

Leading Blog

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Robert Dilenschneider on knowing your strengths: “By knowing your strengths and building on them in a hypercompetitive world, we can be more effective. Source: Power and Influence: The Rules Have Changed.

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Five Happiness Traps

Leading Blog

The decision to choose money over happiness is fueled by insecurity, social comparison, and the need to display one’s power for all to see.” Second, hypercompetitiveness in the workplace leaves us empty and unfulfilled, hurts our ability to lead effectively, and makes us no fun to be around. It’s not always about greed.

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Mavericks at Work: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Labarre Harper Paperbacks (2008) How an organization can prosper in a “hypercompetitive marketplace” As William C. Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win William C. Taylor and Polly G.

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Change the World and Get to Bed by 10:00

Harvard Business Review

They also have the power, through their policies, to change how employees work (and how managers encourage them to). That''s why HBR publishes books , interviews , articles , and blog posts on sleep research (and for that matter, tries to save its own staff from evening and weekend work). Social Influence. Sense of Involvement.