📖 Uncompete

Rejecting Competition to Unlock Success by Ruchika T. Malhotra

November 04, 2025

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“To uncompete is to redefine what success means, on our own terms, for ourselves.”

— Ruchika Malhotra, Uncompete

What if competition isn’t the best way or the only way to progress? What if, instead, it’s actually making us feel isolated, anxious, and burned out?

In Uncompete, Ruchika Malhotra—a leading voice on workplace culture—calls for a radical reset: less rivalry, more solidarity. Drawing from her work with companies and research (plus interviews with real leaders and change-makers), Malhotra lays out a framework that doesn’t just make work happier, but actually makes everyone more successful.

SMARTEST TAKEAWAYS

1️⃣ Collaboration Over Competition: We’re wired to thrive together. Research shows that teams built on collaboration—not cutthroat competition—see more innovation and far less burnout.

2️⃣ Flip Envy Into Inspiration: Malhotra encourages transforming “benign envy” into fuel for mutual growth by cheering others on instead of guarding against their wins.

3️⃣ Abundance, Not Scarcity: Scarcity thinking holds us back. Winning together unlocks creativity, joy in others’ victories, and a true sense of community.

Ruchika Malhotra is the founder of Candour, an inclusion strategy practice creating cultures built on collaboration, solidarity and generocity

INSIGHTFUL EXAMPLE
The Ripple Effects of “Amplifying Others”

Malhotra shares how she has personally benefited from the platform and support of well-known leaders like Brené Brown and Amy Edmondson, who have used their reach to amplify her work. Instead of trying to return the favor one-for-one or “keep score,” Malhotra pays it forward by intentionally supporting less visible voices and boosting others wherever she can. She writes:

“Uncompeting isn’t keeping a tally of who’s-done-what, it’s doing what you can from where you are. That might be a heartfelt thanks, a leg-up at work, or using your platform to boost other people. By amplifying others—in the many big and small ways available to us—we show another, truer side to our stories. We practice radical generosity and solidarity, which are two key ways to reject competition that I outline in Uncompete. In doing so we help each other and we help ourselves, and everyone wins.”

BOOK FACTS
Uncompete

First published: Nov. 4, 2025
Print length: 320 pages
Listening length: 10:00
Ratings: Coming soon

WORTH WATCHING
How to Reject Competition to Unlock Success

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