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Myopic management

2024 December 12 Thursday 18:33

A few weeks ago a job advertisement was noticed, in particular the requirements of the "ideal candidate": '1st or 2:1 degree'; gce a 'A' grade; etc. etc.. Why do managers continue to believe that:

  1. Past personal performance is a reliable guide to future performance;
  2. A person is successful, must be able to communicate and translate that success to others?
On such a basis of logic, football managers such as Arrigo Sacchi, Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, Jurgen Klopp, should never have been appointed...