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495. Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses?

Freakonomics Radio

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The Peter Principle

Great researchers make for lousy department chairs. Great engineers often make for lousy engineering managers. No reason to believe that a great sales person who knows how to negotiate deals will be a great manager. The peter principle had been around for half a century, no one had ever checked with real data from real companies whether lawrence pPeter was right.

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