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495. Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses?

Freakonomics Radio

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The Peter Principle, Why Things Always Go Wrong

In any organization where competence is essentially eligibility for promotion and incompetence is a bar to promotion, people will rise to thei level conpedence. I saw that very often, a competent individual was promoted to something he couldn't do. Kelly sho again, his idea is that firms and organizations tend to promote people based upon their performance.

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