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The people running companies are selected for resembling a leader rather than for being effective at anything.

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hiring Finding people and judging them: referrals, open calls, contests, and reading the work rather than the CV.

management Running the place: an executive's calendar, dissent, severance, and what a manager is actually for.

What Ed Zitron actually said

  1. Ed Zitron Writer and public-relations executive
    Decades of direct erosion of the very concept of leadership means that the people running companies have been selected not based on their actual efficacy — especially as the position became defined by its lack of actual production — but on whether they resemble what a manager or executive is meant to look like based on the work that somebody else did.

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