What the Incompetent Executive Can Teach You

If your career experience looks anything like mine, you’ve probably spent more time than you’d care to admit wondering how less competent people around you appear to get ahead with ease, while you seem stuck in perpetual career stagnation.

At first I bemoaned the unfairness of it all. But then, I began to see corporate dynamics and career upward mobility in a completely new light. Many of the qualities I cherished as my strong points were, in fact, the very attributes holding me back. I was: