Thursday 24 January 2008

No competition

You have just got a new job and it would be good to get a few early wins under your belt, right? Get your ideas out and make sure they are the ones taken up.

Trouble is, in presentations and meetings it can seem as if to express a new idea it to expose it to ridicule and almost certain death from envy and competition.

And you don't want to have to sit and listen to praise for someone else's idea because that somehow feels as if you have lost.

Competition, combativeness..apparently good for business but in reality they keep your attention on your 'rivals' and not on the result. Generate comparative success not necessarily excellence.

If it was really more important to you that the right solutions are implemented rather than that you be right, how many more of their ideas would people tell you?

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