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“Leadership Qualities” vs. Competence: Which Matters More?

Harvard Business Review

David Dunning and Justin Kruger at Cornell have great research showing that the least competent people often end up in charge because they’re overconfident about their own abilities.). We studied 49 teams at a publicly held Dutch company; the teams were auditing finances in search of tax evasion and fraud.