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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.). What lessons should managers take away from these studies? When do self-managed teams, or “holocracies,” work best?