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Re:Every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence by hammock on Thursday March 28, 2024 @09:38AM (#39851269)
At middle management levels that approach may be the way it works, because of the incentives.

But once you start presenting to board rooms and people who have zero skin in the game of office politics, but 100% skin in the game of the firm’s profits (and more broadly firm profits at large), you absolutely will not succeed unless you are delivering value through competence

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Re:Every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence by lamontcg on Thursday March 28, 2024 @12:59PM (#39854336)
I've definitely worked for people who violated that rule to the detriment of the company. They could _appear_ competent, but in my view, corroborated later by the view of the market, they were actually not.
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Re:Every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence by Buttons840 on Thursday March 28, 2024 @01:33PM (#39854839)
It still works that way for anyone who values anything else above profit. If you believe ethics are more important than profit, the board won't like you.
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