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Really bad article. Not surprised its coming from HBR. No facts or data to back up what he is saying. How do you measure someone being incompetent? Since when d

• jldugger 10y ago
  > Really bad article. Not surprised its coming from HBR. No facts or data to back up what he is saying. HBR is a practitioner's magazine; it's purpose is less to offer the evidence and more keep readers abreast of research and thinking in the field. Did feel the citations in the article were insufficient? There seems to be a number of them for any interested reader to follow up on. For example: http://is.muni.cz/el/1421/jaro2009/PSB_516/6390561/w5.pdf http://is.muni.cz/el/1421/jaro2009/PSB_516/6390561/w5.pdf > How do you measure someone being incompetent? Since when does competence make you a good leader? Maybe there's some angle I haven't considered, but competence at being a good leader is basically the same thing as being a good leader. Unless you actively set out to be a bad one I suppose. As for measuring, it gets mushy fairly quickly when looking at meta-analysis. You'll want to dig one level deeper to get an understanding of that; I'll pass personally ;) > Author believes CEOs should be selected by having them take a competence and personality test... Virtually all publications aimed at practitioners are rife with conflict of interest, and HBR is no different. The author is the CEO of an assessment company.