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Leading with Purposeful Intent: Leveraging the Hidden Relationship between Competition and Leadership

Leading with Purposeful Intent: Leveraging the Hidden Relationship between Competition and Leadership

by Brian R. Spisak

Research Associate, Harvard’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative

Mar 23, 2023

Thoughts

In this fascinating article, Brian Spisak, a Research Associate at Harvard’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, looks at leadership through the lens of "niche construction" — a biological process by which an organism alters its own environment. Spisak argues that current attention to how business impacts social concerns indicates that society is returning to a more group-level, communalistic mindset. If that is true, then leaders must be proactive in adopting pro-social behaviors.

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