This is the definition I am using:

a system, organization, or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of success, power, and influence on the basis of their demonstrated abilities and merit.

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    9 months ago

    What’s the difference? The people most deserving of power, success, and influence would be the most qualified to handle it.

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      9 months ago

      Yes, but being good at something does not necessarily correlate to being good at managing others doing that thing.

      This is especially pronounced in sales, where good salespeople get promoted to management, before immediately discovering that it requires a totally different skillset and they’ve basically changed fields entirely.

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        9 months ago

        Managing people is “something.”. It’s a skill. In an ideal meritocracy, managers would be good at managing.