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Ruchika T. Malhotra

Creating cultures built on collaboration, solidarity and generosity.

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
#1 AMAZON BESTSELLER

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the belief that success for all comes from choosing abundance and collaboration, while intentionally rejecting competition.

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UNCOMPETE Rejecting Competition to Unlock Success | Ruchika T. Malhotra

"Enlightening… eye-opening… this will help readers rethink the idea that life is a zero-sum game.”
— Publishers Weekly

Events

December 8
Virtual

The Collaborative Leadership Exchange
hosted by the NCLC


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December 9
Virtual
 

Rejecting Competition to Unlock Success with 
Ellevate Network

 
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March 12-18
Austin, Texas

Uncompete: 
An SXSW Fireside Chat with Amy Gallo


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Ruchika T. Malhotra is the author of the national bestseller, Uncompete: Rejecting Competition To Unlock Success.
(November 4, 2025, Viking Books.)

Learn more about the Uncompete book tour.

 

Ruchika is also the founder of Candour, an inclusion strategy practice.

 

A former international business journalist, her writing has recently appeared in publications including The New York Times and Harvard Business Review.

She is a keynote speaker on leadership, workplace culture and the Uncompete™ framework.

Her last book, Inclusion on Purpose, was The MIT Press' top selling book of 2022 and called "transformative" by Dr. Brené Brown.

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"...Malhotra helps us reconnect to our communities and ourselves.”
— Ijeoma Oluo

Author of So You Want to Talk About Race

"Malhotra has given the world an extraordinary gift. This isn't just a book; it's the beginning of a movement..."
—Amy Gallo

Author of Getting Along

Uncompete is a powerful and deeply resonant manifesto for those of us who are exhausted by hustle culture..."
— Uché Blackstock, MD

Author of Legacy

"Uncompete names what so many of us feel but rarely say aloud: that constant competition isn’t making us better, it’s actually making us sick."
— Pooja Lakshmin, MD

Author of Real Self-Care

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