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Personality, Competencies, Wellbeing

People feel that the sum of their competencies makes success more
likely. When they realize, "If I act alone, I achieve less than if I put
myself at the service of a team and at the same time can use its
energies for my own success!"
More is achieved through joint action than through isolated
action. It is to Adam Grant's credit that he has proven that
helpfulness and commitment to other people are more valuable
than egoistic elbow thinking. For man is also and above all a social
being. Grant proves in his book Give and Take (2016) that helpful
people often get further than elbow types, also and especially at
work. He breaks people down into "givers" and "takers," with givers
being more successful as helpful people because they care about
others - not despite caring about others. Grant dispels the notion that
the selfish person owns the (professional) world. He gives examples
of how givers who care about others are, on average, more
successful, happier, and more recognized than takers. I would like
to take Grant's thoughts and expand on them: people who have a
high level of emotional maturity and a distinctive emotional
intelligence are more likely to build crisis management skills together
with other people and to contribute to solving urgent problems.

A company copes excellently with a crisis if the people who
people who work for it stick together. And the people can
stick together if they fit together and complement each
other.

This is not about harmony sauce and peace, joy, egg cake. On the
contrary. Who doesn't think of peace and quiet as graveyard rest.
Sometimes the disagreement, the quarrel, the

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