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Confessions of a Crummy Manager
By Ray Fisman
After this Saturday essay on what leaders do appeared in The Journal, I’ve had a number of friends and colleagues ask me about whether – and how – my experience writing about organizations and leadership has affected the way I think about my own role within an organization – in my case, Columbia Business School.
I am living proof of the “Peter Principle,” you know, the one that states, “Each employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” Put into a managerial context, there’s no evidence that employees who are good at selling, engineering, or academic writing will be any good at management. Yet this is often the basis for workplace promotion.