"I can do anything. I'm the expert"

So painfully accurate that it never fails to cause PTSD-style flashbacks to countless meetings with execs, managers and salespeople.

Current business culture revolves around and rewards sheer determination and a dominating ego, resulting in a strange atmosphere of people dead-set on getting bizarre requirements met that were made other determined dominators, all of whom lack a basic understanding of relevant facts, and never want to be questioned while they make as many "inspired" design choices as possible.

It felt like these kinds of personalities got worse after everyone got a glimpse at the management style Steve Jobs used at Apple. They were suddenly empowered by their "daring vision" to push engineers to the brink, and fulfill their true calling as unconventional, high-maintenance, self-styled genius managers.

Engineers are not perfect, and there are a lot of people in management who know their stuff, but the type of behavior we reward with leadership opportunities is slowing killing the entire country.

Politics of the candidate aside, there are so many people in leadership roles pretending to have expertise, similar to way Donald Trump talks a big game, that it makes me ill whenever I have to deal with them.

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