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Confidence is not competence

We start kids on the wrong path to the corner office earlier than we realize.

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Ted Bauer
Feb 16, 2021
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Got the idea for this from this tweet via Adam Grant:

https://twitter.com/AdamMGrant/status/1361695817581678593?s=20

This is sad, but expected. I've hit up the narcissism topic a few times, including how the hiring process rewards narcissism (it does), the problems with conversational narcissism (many), and whether we're about to create a full generation …

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