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The third part should come out sometime this month and then I will also come out with a fourth part where I will try to come up with some ways that this knowledge can be applied in the real world.

However there are two pointers:
1) Play to your strengths (but don’t forget to address your weaknesses)

2) Observe and learn from the current alpha of the group. The alphas always learn from the previous ones. For example in the Gombe group, Figan was the only chimp that as a kid was trying to copy what Mike the incumbent alpha was doing. He would go out and spend hours practicing rolling cans around. He was the only chimp doing that. He became the alpha just a few years after Mike. Then Goblin, the guy who took over the position from Figan, spent a lot of time as Figan’s protege, learning to do things the same way that Figan was doing them. Group dynamics are specific and what works for the current alpha will most likely work for others as well (keeping in mind pointer number 1).

So my strategy was to seek out groups with weaker males and dominate them, but the problem is that such groups often have few if any females within them, due to the weakness of the males. Which means yes, I’m dominating a group and getting a few females in the bargain, but nothing compared to what truly powerful alpha males I know get. Eventually I become bored with said group, and disengage from them entirely and spend large amounts of time on the edges of groups, never quite joining or fitting in.

But when it comes to my job, as a manager, I have absolutely NO problems dominating my coworkers, even my bosses. For some reason, in the professional environment, I’m able to instinctually lead a team to success. It’s mind bogglingly frustrating.