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the one theory i read about on the correlation between height and managerial position is that, people's confidence correlate highly with height when they were t
by fhe 5y ago
the one theory i read about on the correlation between height and managerial position is that, people's confidence correlate highly with height when they were teenagers (I am assuming that people's height when they are teenagers also highly correlate with their final, adult height), and in a corporate environment, marginally more confident goes a long way -- way more than marginally better at programming or building spreadsheet.
And as someone who is in a bit of a managerial position myself, and having watched many others try to manage to various degree of success, I'd say this translation between confidence to managerial responsibility is a feature not a bug. You really do want to put a confident person in charge if only that others are more inclined to follow her. An adequate plan resolutely executed is much better than a somewhat better plan timidly presented.
check out this old HN thread on "rich kids already won the career game"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2296550 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2296550
- gyulai 5y ago> marginally more confident goes a long way ...not sure. My own piece of anecdata here is that healthy self confidence is not really correlated with better career opportunities at all in our industry. If anything, maybe even the opposite is true. In my mind, companies promote people who have internalized the pre-existing power structure and perpetuate it [1]. These tend to be of the "insecure overachiever" [2] type, rather than independent thinkers with healthy self-confidence. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Critical-Professionals-Soul-Battering/dp/0742516857/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=disciplined+minds&qid=1645536713&sprefix=disciplined+minds%2Caps%2C165&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Critical-Profession... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Professionals-Power-Politics-Donnas/dp/0198744781/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1SS770MS45NVS&keywords=leading+professionals&qid=1645536856&sprefix=leading+professionals%2Caps%2C158&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Professionals-Power-Politics-...
- fallingfrog 5y agoHard disagree. Being a large, attractive person who confidently states positions that are stupid and incorrect will garner the support of ignorant and stupid people - just look at politics. It helps you gain the support of people who can't tell either way whether you're right or wrong, so they just follow whoever seems to have higher social status or is nicer to look at. But it usually leads to disastrous decisions which the short nerdy person in the corner of the room was trying to tell everyone about, but nobody would listen, because they were small and unattractive and didn't have a big booming voice.