What The Expert Misses
the the truth nobody wants to say out loud is that most people with authority didn’t earn it.
they inherited it.
they faked it.
they politicked their way into it.
they sat in meetings, approved other people’s work, & called it “leadership.”
they were great at navigating the game of perception.
they were terrible at building anything real.
and now the... See more
they inherited it.
they faked it.
they politicked their way into it.
they sat in meetings, approved other people’s work, & called it “leadership.”
they were great at navigating the game of perception.
they were terrible at building anything real.
and now the... See more
the death of expertise
But the point is: being exceptionally talented and trained was, in the long run, not enough to do groundbreaking work because they lacked the capacity to go beyond the context they had been raised in.