Episode 148: So Many Incompetent Leaders
/“The argument I made was, instead of blaming women for not leaning in, how about we stop falling for people, usually men, who lean in when they don’t have the talents to back it up?”
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Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Most leaders in business and politics are male, and most of us rate our leaders poorly.
Would that change if more leaders were women?
In this show I sit down with psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, author of Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? We discuss confidence versus competence, learning to distrust our instincts about who is leadership material, and how bad leadership can drive a lot of us out of a job. Voluntarily.
You can also read a transcript of the show.
Further reading:
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic originally wrote about male and female leadership in a 2013 Harvard Business Review article with the same title as his book.