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Pairs of Unlikely Compliments: Compassion and Competition
Hilary Jane Grosskopf
Hilary Jane Grosskopf
Jul 5, 2017 · 5 min read
Two weeks ago, I saw Vincente Fox speak about qualities of strong modern leaders. He mentioned many qualities but two that he mentioned seemed very conflicting, until I listened and thought about it more. He stated that modern leaders must be compassionate to foster collaboration. He also mentioned that competition is important for modern leaders to foster creativity and for world leaders to solve global issues. I am not a fan of competition. I have never been a fan of competition ever since I was young. However, after listening to Vincente, I realized that competition is a tool, like anything else, that can be used for good or for bad, depending on the scenario and the application.
Compassion as a Way of Leading
First, what is compassion and why does it matter? If compassion is sympathy toward others suffering, then compassion takes connection and empathy on the part of a leader. Compassion fosters transparent, sustainable relationships within organizations and successful collaborative relationships with business partners.
When you are able to practice compassion, borders fade away and seemingly different people can collaborate, relate to one another, and come to mutual agreement or at least mutual understanding of each side of an argument or experience. If you can practice compassion, by understanding that someone else, depending on their perspective may have a different understanding or experience, you can listen instead of walk away. You can even collaborate without giving up due to frustration or differences. You can even agree to disagree and preserve the relationship without burning a bridge and collecting stress. Compassion allows you to feel connected to more people, collaborate with diverse groups, and make your team more universally appealing, inside and out.
Competition as a Tool
Where does competition fit in then? Doesn’t competition exactly counter the intention of compassionate leadership? While compassion connects and removes separation, competition enhances separation and makes distinctions. In competition there is a winner and a loser. Competition entails gaining superiority over others instead of listening and helping someone else achieve their goal or overcome suffering. Competition traditionally entails suffering on the account of at least one party involved.
So, the big question: If a leader practices compassion, can they also practice and engage in competition? If they engage in competition, are they hoping for others to suffer or lose? Are compassion and competition opposites, and so they inherently can’t coexist?
Many leaders and organizations overlook a more creative, deep use for competition. Competition is often based on a perception of scarcity, and involves a winner and a loser in a discouraging, fear-based sense. For example: there are not enough customers for both organizations to be profitable if they both exist, there is only one #1 spot on the Fortune 500 list, and there is only one most profitable organization in our industry. However, if we reframe competition and take the scarcity, the threatening part, and replace that with a use of challenge - a vehicle for both improvement and for realizing your organization’s unique purpose and contribution - competition can then be used for enhancing creativity. In this case, the fear factor of competition fades away and it’s an exciting process for enhancing creativity.
If you come up with an idea and it’s always the best, sometimes we don’t feel challenged to come up with a better one or a new one as conditions change or we’re never challenged to work beyond, toward a bigger
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