10-28-2008, 04:19 AM | #1 |
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Have you guys seen this before?
Marshall Goldsmith worked with 50,000 leaders from various corporations. He asked them to rank themselves in relation to their peers: About 60 percent of all leaders rank themselves in the "top 10 percent" of their professional peer group, almost 85 percent say they are in the "top 20 percent." Over 98 percent claim to be in the "top half." The performance of the company has very little to do with the self-assessment of its leaders. I have done this exercise with leaders in two companies that were facing bankruptcy - the results were almost identical. Jeez. No wonder our financial institutions are such a disaster. All the execs are infallible. Goldsmith went on to say that when he presented to a group of doctors and informed the group that half of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their graduating class, two of the doctors actually tried to argue that Goldsmith must be mistaken because everybody knows that doctors tend to be smarter than average. |
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This doesn't surprise me at all. One of the most important characteristics for moving up the corporate ladder is the ability to be confident in your decisions, and express that confidence. Even if you are wrong much of the time, you look like a leader. I have developed my own matrix to explain success in succeeding in large companies. On one axis is intelligence, the ability to make correct decisions. On the other axis is confidence in your opinions. My working theory is that those who score high on both axes do the best, but that those who are Confident/Dumb do better than those who are Smart/Not Confident. I am just waiting for someone to provide me with a grant of several millions of dollars so that I can confirm my hypothesis.
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Interesting. I dare bet that most of them walk into a room, look around, and silently but triumphantly state that they are the smartest person there.
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10-28-2008, 01:45 PM | #10 |
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While I don't anymore, I used to work with Doctors on a daily basis.
It was interesting the different levels of narcissism I would encounter, and how certain specialties were different. For example it seemed that a Family Practitioner wasn't nearly as arrogant as say a Cardiologist or a Gastro. Weird observations I know. But it was just a small snippet of my experiences. I was amazed at how smart, yet at the same time how devoid of common sense so many of them were.
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