Quite a few people I know have deliberately stopped climbing the ladder because they decided senior roles were not for them. Not only that, I often see people d

Quite a few people I know have deliberately stopped climbing the ladder because they decided senior roles were not for them. Not only that, I often see people decline promotions because they think that they will not be able to do what's needed due to imposter syndrome (or good old fashioned low confidence & self esteem) when I think that actually they'd do a very good job. It's also not widely appreciated that many senior roles are basically unwinnable. What I mean is that no matter how good the manager is they are destined to repeated failures because the job is stacked against them. The thing is to have people doing these jobs who mitigate the damage and manage the fall out effectively. This is often perceived as incompetence by other in the organisation when it really isn't.