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Research: Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence?

Harvard Business Review

In other words, organizations manage careers so that everyone “rises to the level of their incompetence.” When organizations reward success in one role with a promotion to another, the usual grumbles ensue; the best engineer doesn’t make the best engineering manager, and the best professor doesn’t make the best dean.

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? We were surprised that 30 leaders in the study recalled a total of 87 “major” ethical dilemmas from their career histories.

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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business Review

The flip side of the stress test, though, is that there is some possibility for the banks to reverse-engineer and game the results. Career Bankers Alone Can’t Solve the Financial Industry’s Problems. And, additionally, the hope is this makes the banks more cognizant of the risks they face. This is better in the U.S.