I sometimes find the smart and lazy in charge, because their laziness forces them to be charismatic. In reality this seems like a false classification. People

I sometimes find the smart and lazy in charge, because their laziness forces them to be charismatic. In reality this seems like a false classification. People of all types make it to the top, and it's hard to find some simple metric that says what will do it. At a prior large consulting firm that I worked for, they did a huge analysis and found the only predictors of success as a senior consultant were "Did they get a 3.0 in a tech degree or a 3.2 in a non-tech degree?" and "Did they have any kind of job while in college?" That seems to suggest smart enough and diligent enough for entry level. The same firm did an analysis to see which managers made good partners, and they couldn't find any predictors. The entry level predictors no longer mattered. School didn't matter. Competency (process, technology, etc) didn't matter. Industry didn't matter. Length of time to get promoted to manager didn't matter. Net - it's hard to predict winners!