Uncompete
Rejecting Competition to Unlock Success
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
A timely and transformative new framework for success from a sought-after strategist, speaker, and author
The need to compete is deeply ingrained in every aspect of our lives and work. It’s often viewed as a positive: we are told it motivates us to do our best, to work hard, that it drives innovation and excellence. But, what if that’s a lie? What if in reality, competition causes more harm than good: exhaustion, anxiety, burnout, and an isolating lack of community. It encourages a scarcity mindset and keeps us from reaching our true potential.
Drawing on Ruchika’s own experiences working with corporations as a sought-after inclusion strategist, as well as interviews from business and community leaders and the latest research data, UNCOMPETE offers a new framework for building a culture of collaboration, solidarity, and mutuality. It’s a framework that yields not only a happier workplace, but a far more successful one, and it can transform our work and our lives. From showing us how to tap into our benign envy, to investigate our cultural norms, to cultivate a greater imagination, and rewrite the rules to lift everyone up, UNCOMPETE is a radical reset of our mindsets. It helps us cultivate abundance, find genuine joy in others’ victories, and embody the belief that there is room for all of us to succeed.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant Malhotra (Inclusion on Purpose) challenges the idea that competition is necessary for success in this enlightening, if overly broad, manifesto. The constant struggle to be number one at work or in life ends in isolation and anxiety, Malhotra argues, while cooperation for the greater good results in joy, peace, and community. Drawing on data, interviews with business leaders, and her own personal and professional experiences, Malhotra lays out a framework for unlearning competition and embracing an abundance mindset. She demonstrates how collaboration—collectively pooling resources and working together—benefits everyone, pointing to how the U.S. women's soccer team came together in recent years to successfully demand pay equality with the men's team. Elsewhere, she encourages reframing the tendency to compare oneself to others by recognizing that others are worthy and deserving of success; and pushes readers to embrace the idea that happiness is not proportional to how much they achieve in life, among other practices. Her perspective is novel and eye-opening, but at times she overreaches and loses focus, presenting her noncompetitive philosophy as a cure-all for the world's problems. Still, this will help readers rethink the idea that life is a zero-sum game.
