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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 Ways to Project Credibility in an Instant

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Cara Hale Alter: You’re a smart and skilled leader with powerful potential. Still, in today’s high-speed, hypercompetitive business world, when key opportunities knock, you have little time to make a big impression. The power of this one skill—to literally be levelheaded—can be transformative.

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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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Morning Advantage: Are We Really Getting Smarter?

Harvard Business Review

It turns out that in so-called “advanced nations,” our collective brain power is growing — at least according to James Flynn, who’s studied IQ gains over time (a phenomenon now known as the Flynn effect). This just in from The Wall Street Journal : that’s not just a hat rack on your shoulders. Commenters at both sites are skeptical.

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Beware the Analytics Bottleneck

Harvard Business Review

Make faster decisions for faster rewards: It’s important for businesses to sense, analyze, interpret and act fast on the data insights as competitive advantages will likely be more fleeting than long lasting in the hypercompetitive world.

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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). If you''re a corporate leader, you''re constantly being asked to pitch in on a cause or add power to the arm of some activist. Social Influence. Sense of Involvement. I''ll be moderating a panel there.).