Stop Promoting Incompetent Leaders
There are too many incompetent men in leadership positions — in large part because businesses tend to promote people on the basis of charisma, confidence, and even narcissism.?
Instead, companies should be putting people in charge who demonstrate competence, humility, and integrity. If you’re responsible for assessing leadership candidates, you should work on your ability to distinguish between confidence and competence. Remember that overconfidence is a natural result of privilege, which is often linked to gender.?
Fortunately, you can use scientifically valid assessments to measure the traits you want (or don’t want) in your leaders. You can ask company leaders, including emerging leaders, to take self-assessments, and then measure their responses against their leadership style, performance, and effectiveness. The resulting data will help identify patterns that characterize good and bad leaders at your company.?
Of course, this practice will take time and effort, and many organizations won’t want to invest those resources. But vetting candidates for leadership roles will pay dividends down the line.
Read the full article: “How to Spot an Incompetent Leader.”?And the book: “Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?”?
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9 个月It's less incompetence we all want at leadership levels, irregardless of whether those leaders are male or female. It's possibly more pronounced in male leadership because far more men are promoted to those roles. As a general observation women are far more likely to be self aware of their shortcomings than men - we're more self observant of this anyway - therefore more likely to take to learning and overcoming our incompetence. Men however are more likely to rely on 'leadership styles' hiding any incompetence rather than owning up to any shortcoming. Some simple observations over the years of being in management and leadership roles.
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1 年Confidence and competence have nothing to do with good leadership, at any level of organization good leadership is a separate and teachable set of skills
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1 年I’ve got so many mixed feelings about this article. Why the exclusive reference to men in leadership?
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1 年Confidence and competence should be clearly distinguished.
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1 年Building women's confidence necessitates a joint endeavor at the institutional level. By acknowledging the institutional responsibility for empowering women, we can instigate substantial transformations and establish a society that cultivates confidence throughout every phase of a woman's life—from girlhood and adolescence to the journey of becoming a working woman, navigating adulthood, and embracing parenthood.