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I strongly disagree with your assessment that this person doesn't value competency, at least based off of her dislike of meritocracy. Meritocracy is not a repl
by tedivm 9y ago
I strongly disagree with your assessment that this person doesn't value competency, at least based off of her dislike of meritocracy.
Meritocracy is not a replacement for proper management, and without proper management the idea of "meritocracy" reverts back to just being a popularity contest. If you don't have a good management system in place then identifying who "merits" promotion is extremely difficult and is often based not on how someone performs but how much they are liked by the decision makers of the company.
- emodendroket 9y agoIt is indeed pretty easy for meritocracy to turn into the most popular people congratulating themselves for being so meritorious.
- asveikau 9y ago> If you don't have a good management system in place then identifying who "merits" promotion is extremely difficult and is often based not on how someone performs but how much they are liked by the decision makers of the company. Worth noting that a typical "management system" simply re-enforces these "likeability" biases with a bunch of phony paperwork. (Not that I didn't like this article. I came here to the comments kind of puzzled why it was flagged.)