{"id":1073,"date":"2025-12-20T08:44:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T08:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2025-12-20T08:44:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T08:44:04","slug":"the-myth-of-merit-in-the-managerial-class-dan-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/the-myth-of-merit-in-the-managerial-class-dan-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cthe myth of merit in the managerial class\u201d &#8211; Dan Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cENTRY LEVEL: A bunch of kids with resumes. Some of them will be creative thinkers, hard workers, good managers, some will be lemons. You are absolutely kidding yourself if you think you can reliably pick winners based on the information available. All you can do is select out people who aren\u2019t even capable of keeping their massively disqualifying personality problems under control for the length of a selection centre. You are going to be selecting based on a bit of nepotism, a bit of PLULPLU (people like us like people like us), quite a bit of \u201cam I in a good mood, did I have a nice lunch\u201d and mostly random chance\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/backofmind.substack.com\/p\/the-myth-of-merit-in-the-managerial\">https:\/\/backofmind.substack.com\/p\/the-myth-of-merit-in-the-managerial<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cENTRY LEVEL: A bunch of kids with resumes. Some of them will be creative thinkers, hard workers, good managers, some will be lemons. You are absolutely kidding yourself if you think you can reliably pick winners based on the information available. All you can do is select out people who aren\u2019t even capable of keeping&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}