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"it's a reflection on themselves or their skills when that's often not the case." - it is often not the case, but often considered the case. Successfully climbing the corporate ladder requires a set of skills, observational and behavioral, that people as teenagers or college students didn't think were necessary. Say, your manager does not want to hear bad news. They panic, they get mean, they betray when faced with bad news. Should you tell them bad news or make the bad news less bad when not fairly ok? Sure, you can change jobs etc., but given that you want to stay at that company/group/position, should you tell them bad news? The answer is of course no, because it is much easier for them to panic one more time than to change their ways. Basically, the correct (fitness-optimizing!) behavior is mostly situational, the behavior of the shrewd corporate player at the IC, manager, and leadership level depends on the company, people within the company, and situations within people within companies. Of course, most of us would love to see a different world, but this is what we have as of now. |