Leading Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Second, hypercompetitiveness in the workplace leaves us empty and unfulfilled, hurts our ability to lead effectively, and makes us no fun to be around. Which of the happiness traps keep me from pursuing my dreams for a better job, a great career, or real fulfillment in the job I have now? Which happiness traps do I keep others in?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Many employees are encouraged to “just be yourself,” only to find their authenticity — and their career ambitions — constrained by unwritten office rules about appearance, speech, and behavior. If you want to be perceived as leadership material, do you suppress your difference or embrace it?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

There’s a meme on the internet, which speaks truth about a dilemma for young people entering the hypercompetitive workforce of 2017. In a new initiative at Brandeis University’s Perlmutter Institute for Global Business Leadership , we’re studying this exact problem. How can the credibility paradox be solved?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 31, 2016

This post first appeared in SmartBrief on Leadership : Here’s a question I often get from managers: “I have employees that don’t want to be developed. In today’s hypercompetitive, white-water, VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) business environment, if you are not growing you are dying. Probably not.

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