Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Executives set impossible goals, so managers drive their teams to burnout trying to deliver. Today’s hypercompetitive economy has created tense, overextended workplaces. Now Available For Pre-Order (click here). At last, my next book, Winning Well (being published by AMACOM) is now available for pre-order on Amazon.

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360-Degree Feedback Hypercompetition Objective Workshop 180

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Wouldn’t it be better if money was an outcome that followed our good work rather than a goal in itself?” Second, hypercompetitiveness in the workplace leaves us empty and unfulfilled, hurts our ability to lead effectively, and makes us no fun to be around. We need to tune in to what really brings us happiness in life.

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Hypercompetition Short-term Comparison Follow-up 157

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 4, 2011

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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Hypercompetition Taylorism Taylor Books 85

Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

Executives can enhance knowledge sharing by providing access to knowledge, and stimulate new ideas and knowledge generation, transfer an individual’s knowledge to other members and departments, and improve knowledge capturing, storing, and accumulating, aiming at achieving organizational goals.

Knowledge Management 50

Knowledge Management Strategy Hypercompetition Management 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Having spent 25 years in this field, I’ve come across some hypercompetitive people who wouldn’t lift a finger to help a colleague and others who clashed regularly with coworkers, getting into arguments that sucked up time and energy. I was fiercely determined to hit my sales goals and keep my job. Seek three outcomes.

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Hypercompetition Team Cooper Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The ultimate goal of any Work PreView Meeting is to decide what to do with the resources at hand given what the team knows now and what is has to work with. Managers are better off, and the organization is more successful, when peers on a team work to understand each other and make trade-offs in support of higher-level goals.

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Hypercompetition Team Management Information 72

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2015

For decades now, both consultants and academics have been arguing that the world has become so fast paced, so hypercompetitive, so complex, so ambiguous, and so uncertain, that the death knell has sounded for strategy’s central concept of sustainable competitive advantage. But it is not a firm’s ultimate strategic goal.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Strategy Hypercompetition Agility 8