13 Nov 2022 1:36 pm
A more plausible explanation that they were promoted according to the well known law (From Yawning heights by A. Zinoviev)Neo » 13 Jul 2022, 6:42 am » wrote: ↑ Pretty familiar with imposter syndrome, have a few friends that have been diagnosed with it. They are competent in their positions, getting various awards for excellence and promoted into management. They feel on some days that they are not qualified for their positions when clearly they are.
Take for example a law according to which there exists a tendency to appoint to senior posts not the wisest and the most talented people but the most mediocre and dim-witted — who are acceptable to management on other grounds and have the right connections. The consequence of this law is that in a given sphere of activity (for example in research institutes, in schools and universities, in cultural organizations and so on), senior posts are usually (or at any rate frequently) occupied by people who are stupid and inept from the point of view of the business they are involved in but cunning and resourceful in terms of their career interests.