Psychology at Work | Career Success, Leadership, Communication Skills

71. Uncompete: A New Strategy for Career Advancement Without Political Games or Burnout


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Are you constantly measuring yourself against everyone else at work? This constant comparison is exhausting. And according to today’s guest, Ruchika T. Malhotra, it's also sabotaging you. Ruchika is the author of Uncompete: Rejecting Competition to Unlock Success and joins Melody to share a radically different approach to success – one that doesn't require being obsessed with always being the best.

What You’ll Discover: 

  • The invisible beliefs about competition draining your energy at work (and how to break free from them)
  • How to handle colleagues who seem to get ahead by stepping over others
  • Ways to advance your career without "sharp elbows" or playing political games that make you feel gross

About Ruchika 

Ruchika T. Malhotra is the founder of Candour, a global inclusion strategy firm that has worked with some of the world’s biggest organizations. A former business journalist, she is now a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, The Seattle Times, and more. She is the author of Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work and Uncompete: Rejecting Competition to Unlock Success.  https://www.ruchika.co/ 

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