FOUNDATION OF HEALTHY COMPETITION

Most of us from childhood, associate success & failure with a relative yardstick. Our happiness & sadness quotients can instantly metamorphose with knowledge of how folks around us have performed vis-à-vis us. We need to be always better or less worse than our friends, classmates, & colleagues.  

Years of this indoctrination has unfortunately made most of us professionals, resent the bigger laurels of anyone who is in our immediate success zone. We have hence, external & internal competitors: our colleagues and peers. Sometimes we subconsciously feel less sad if our deals go to competition instead of colleagues in other teams/ regions. In case of a collaborative team effort, we 1st clarify our revenue recognition before we choose to overtly or covertly help.

Let's take a step back and consider : this is a dynamic world with crests & troughs of wins & losses; our classmates, peers, colleagues are all good just as us. WE MUST END THE FEELINGS OF WISHING LESS FOR THEM, JEALOUSY & COMPARING ACHIEVEMENTS.

Great Leaders are impartial & make their organisation greater than the sum of their teams. In our journey to be great leaders, we must first acknowledge & genuinely feel happy for the success of our so-called internal competitors without measuring their achievement against ours. Then only we can encourage healthy competition, eliminate infighting & cannibalization of efforts within our team.

For encouraging HEALTHY COMPETITION we should :

1. CEASE COMPARISONS OF SUCCESS & resulting envy for self & team members

2. LEARN & IMBIBE from the success of our colleagues & competition

3. GROW THE INDUSTRY SPHERE as a whole, thus expanding success for everyone

Leaders who imbibe this true spirit of healthy competition will be impartial, eliminate team infighting & establish high performing symbiotic teams !