Raad Al-Saady [Archive.org URL]

You have a duty to find and keep great leaders — not only to produce results but also because they coach and mentor the next group of leaders. When people get promoted to their level of incompetence, they end up managing a group of people who are more talented than they are. Then they start playing politics because they’re insecure about the people below them. Negative incentive stuff also happens as a result; you start dumbing down your incentive scheme to make it more “egalitarian.” That’s how, slowly but surely, mediocrity starts to eat up the culture of excellence. As those people multiply inside your organization, they pull the organization back.

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