Too competitive?

• This is a genuine dilemma - you compete with your peers both for the resources you need to get your job done and for promotion.
• If you are extra competitive, you go all out to win at all cost.
• Do you hate losing and punish those who occasionally beat you?
• Do you have more enemies than friends?
• This is a short term mindset. When you win, you make short term gains at the expense of long term losses. You risk losing in the end by making so many enemies that they will gang up on you at some point.
• You have to be quite a lone hero to employ this strategy when even large companies are no longer going it alone - even they see the need for strategic alliances, some of which are with direct competitors.
• Can you succeed in an increasingly complex world with no one's help?

Being less competitive but still winning

• How can you create more win-win outcomes?
• How can you help others win with you?
• Can you re-frame what is in your best interests?
• Can you articulate how helping others win will create wins for you?
• Are there some particular partnerships you can form where a win for both is just as good or an even better win for you?
• Even if you can't eliminate your natural competitiveness, can you channel it differently?
• Why not focus on an external enemy to beat rather than colleagues?
• Can you work together to defeat that enemy?