Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses? (Ep. 495 Replay)

为什么有这么多坏老板?(Ep. 495重播)

Freakonomics Radio

社会与文化

2023-03-16

49 分钟
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People who are good at their jobs routinely get promoted into bigger jobs they’re bad at. We explain why firms keep producing incompetent managers — and why that’s unlikely to change.

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  • Hey there, it's Stephen Dubner.

  • Do you ever wonder how your boss became a boss in the first place?

  • Yeah, we do too.

  • Especially when things go sideways.

  • In retrospect, it's easy to say that Sam Bankman Fried was not the best person to be running FTX, the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange.

  • But retrospect is always easy.

  • What about right now?

  • Do you have a bad boss?

  • Have you ever had one?

  • Chances are yes.

  • So I hope you enjoy today's episode, which we first published last year.

  • It's called why are there so many bad bosses?

  • My name's Katie Johnson and I'm a data scientist.

  • Johnson is 32 years old and lives in London.

  • She grew up near Bristol, went to university in Birmingham, and since then has held a series of increasingly impressive jobs at a series of companies.

  • These were all what are known as IC jobs.

  • IC standing for individual contributor, which means.

  • What it is, someone who makes, as opposed to managing people who make.

  • Johnson loved being an IC.

  • She loved analyzing data, and she was really good at her job.