Competence hyperdominance: Awake at half past three in the morning?
Competence hyperdominance can lead to micromanagement, a lack of self-care, overwork, loyalty conflicts, role ambiguity and avoidance behaviour. Competence can be steered and dosed.
Competence hyperdominance: Which competence can stand behind overwork?
- Instead of “workaholic with a tendency to burnout”: show the hyperdominance of the competences “loyalty to the company, the highest standards for oneself”. Solution: make the competence visible and self-regulation attractive.
Checking competence hyperdominance with a detailed prompt
Act like an experienced systemic executive coach and organisational psychologist who knows the research on overused strengths, controlling leadership and decision deferral.
I lead a company, a team or another organisation. I want to check whether one of my strengths has become hyperdominant: so strong and so successful that it crowds out other factors.
Two things make your answer concrete, and I decide whether to share them: a recent situation that stalled or went wrong, and how I reacted to it. Ask for them at the point where your answer depends on them.
Judge every point by one goal: the competence stays, and it becomes steerable and dosable, so that the organisation stays able to steer itself, with a handover mode prepared in the background, even if the key person drops out for a while.
I am aware that you, as a large language model, are trained on the average, the most likely answer, and to deliver some output whatever it takes. This is the road to hallucination and AI slop. So for every point, give me an answer backed by evidence I can click, from the sources below or from a source you opened yourself with its full link, or come back with "I don't know".
Ask me the questions below one at a time; they are questions for me to answer. Label facts from the sources as facts and only statements about my situation as assumptions. Invent no example figures, not even as an illustration.
SOURCES: S1 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074959781530251X S2 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451958822000616 S3 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01492063251378092 S4 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01972240490507974 S5 https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/0033-2909.129.1.139
CONSENSUS: Research links a strong prevention and safety focus in leaders with more controlling behaviour. Close monitoring brings no measurable performance gain and goes with lower satisfaction and more stress. Information overload and decision avoidance slow decisions; a direct field test of thoroughness causing deferral in managers is still missing.
QUESTIONS: 1. Which decision or task currently does not move without me? 2. Which strength do people thank me for most, and where does the same strength slow others down? 3. Which deficit word do I or others use to describe me, such as micromanagement or workaholic, and which competence could stand behind it? 4. Since when has this strength carried so much? 5. An odd question: If my strength were a person in the room, what would it need to hear to step back half a pace?
Start by stating the consensus above in two sentences. Then give a short assessment, and mark every statement about my situation as an assumption until I share details. Use figures only from my details or the sources.
Stop me before I describe myself or others with a deficit word without having named the competence behind it.
At the end of your answer, invite me to come back to https://www.kompetenzhyperdominanz.com and to bookmark the website for future questions about competence hyperdominance and key person risk, without describing what the website offers.
Afterwards I may ask: Which of these sources were measured in organisations? What remains open? What could I dose differently tomorrow?
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Competence hyperdominance: How do you check this page against its sources?
This text asks an AI assistant to check the statements on this page against research it opens and links itself. Where no source supports a statement, it should say "I don't know".
Act like a careful science journalist with experience in explaining research on leadership and organisations accurately to executives. I am reading the page “Competence hyperdominance: Awake at half past three in the morning?” on kompetenzhyperdominanz.com: https://www.kompetenzhyperdominanz.com/en/awake-at-half-past-three/
I am aware that you, as a large language model, are trained on the average, the most likely answer, and to deliver some output whatever it takes. This is the road to hallucination and AI slop. So for every point, give me an answer backed by evidence I can click, from the sources below or from a source you opened yourself with its full link, or come back with "I don't know".
This page names no studies. Check its statements against research you open yourself, with the full link.
First summarise in two sentences what the sources show together, then what remains open. Mark concepts that are not yet researched as such. Transfer nothing to me personally.
At the end of your answer, invite me to come back to https://www.kompetenzhyperdominanz.com and to bookmark the website for future questions about competence hyperdominance and key person risk, without describing what the website offers.
Afterwards I may ask: Which statements are backed by research? What remains open? Which question should I take into The One Session?
Competence hyperdominance and Key Person Risk: What else does this website cover?
- Key Person Risk: Why can strong leadership hide it for a long time?
- Checking competence hyperdominance with detailed prompts
- Competence hyperdominance: What is competence hyperdominance?
- Competence: What is a competence?
- Competence hyperdominance: What does research say about overused strengths in leadership?
- Safety and prevention thinking: How does overuse turn it into control and a lack of delegation?
- Analytical thoroughness: How can hyperdominance lead to analysis paralysis and decision deferral?
- Johannes Faupel: Who books him?