Steve tedellis is not the only economist who's been frustrated by the lack of evidence for what makes a good boss good. Maybe compassion is as important as he suspects, but we just don't have any large scale empirical evidence yet. This has not stopped leadership goroos from promoting their theories. As we have said before on this show, survey data can be the lowest form of data.
People who are good at their jobs routinely get promoted into bigger jobs they’re bad at. We explain why firms keep producing incompetent managers — and why that’s unlikely to change.