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*it is dead easy being a peacetime General: in the corporate world there are thousands of senior managers who never face an existential crisis. Survivor bias: most of those who do aren't here to talk about it. | *it is dead easy being a peacetime General: in the corporate world there are thousands of senior managers who never face an existential crisis. Survivor bias: most of those who do aren't here to talk about it. | ||
*much of the complexity of modern management is precisely to conceal how uncomplicated management is. Jargon, technical language, continuing professional development, post graduate qualifications - these are cosmetic flourishes to make the task seem more complicated than it is. | *much of the complexity of modern management is precisely to conceal how uncomplicated management is. Jargon, technical language, continuing professional development, post graduate qualifications - these are cosmetic flourishes to make the task seem more complicated than it is. | ||
Nutshell: the converse of it being no criticism of you that you never made it, is that it is no feather in the cap of the other person that she did. | |||
===Excuses, excuses, excuses === | |||
Systematic bias, at a personal level, reads like a conspiracy theory. Get over it. It follows from what goes before (that no industry is an altruistic meritocracy - that all are capricious; full of bullshitters, cads and blaggers who ''get away with it'') that it will be skewed, stacked and biased in favour of low-grade incumbents who, because they are dispositionally undeserving of their own positions, will be similarly ill-disposed to choosing suitable successors. Most of the time, they'll be white middle class men. But that's by the by. It'd be the same story in Kenya, Nepal or Chile. | |||
===Organising principles=== | ===Organising principles=== | ||