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Leading Thoughts for December 30, 2021

Leading Blog

Robert Dilenschneider on knowing your strengths: “By knowing your strengths and building on them in a hypercompetitive world, we can be more effective. You need to learn how to block out your weaknesses, prune them, and drive steadily from your strengths. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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8 Reasons Your Peers Rate You Low on Your 360 Feedback Assessment

Let's Grow Leaders

Managers learn how to: • Stamp out the corrosive win-at-all-costs mentality. Today’s hypercompetitive economy has created tense, overextended workplaces. To succeed, managers need balance: they must push people to achieve while creating an environment that makes them truly want to. Focus on the game, not just the score. And more. .

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Five Ways to Project Credibility in an Instant

Great Leadership By Dan

Still, in today’s high-speed, hypercompetitive business world, when key opportunities knock, you have little time to make a big impression. Guest post by Cara Hale Alter: You’re a smart and skilled leader with powerful potential. Keep your posture open, your head up, and your navel pointing toward the speaker.

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Five Happiness Traps

Leading Blog

Annie McKee shares in How to Be Happy at Work , five happiness traps. Second, hypercompetitiveness in the workplace leaves us empty and unfulfilled, hurts our ability to lead effectively, and makes us no fun to be around. However, considering the time we spend at work, it should not be a mindless task. The Overwork Trap.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. The Thinkers50 book series is now available from McGraw Hill.

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My Competitiveness Was Hurting My Sales Team. Here’s How I Realized It

Harvard Business Review

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. And my hypercompetitive colleagues were surely behaving the same way. Joel Garfinkle.

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Frugal Innovation: Lessons from Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault-Nissan

Harvard Business Review

Since its launch in September 2011, DOST has garnered more than a third of India's hypercompetitive light commercial vehicles market. It's about learning how to innovate under severe constraints and turn extreme adversity into an opportunity for growth. The result is DOST, an entry-level pick-up truck with a starting price of Rs 3.7

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