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Deal With the Brilliant Jerks You Work With
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by moondrake on Friday February 28 2014, @10:39AM
Though I am working in science, not business, it is my experience that there are many people who are not brilliant at all. Usually, these are the same people that claim that "what we are doing is difficult and complex" and are generally full of themselves.
Perhaps all the real smart people are in business...
That said, I found it easier to deal with stupid jerks compared to brilliant ones, but that could be just me.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @02:04PM
But what I'm doing is complex: It has an imaginary part.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Friday February 28 2014, @03:12PM
Clearly, you've never been involved with business! The defining characteristics of most people in management, at least the ones that I've met:
1. Gut instincts trumping evidence and demonstrable fact.
1A. Personal friendships and perceptions are more important for determining compensation and promotions than getting things done or improving the company's bottom line.
2. Ruthlessness and callousness bordering on psychopathy. A Machiavellian streak that would have them sell out or backstab their best friend if it would give them a leg up.
3. A sense of entitlement that allows them to not think about all those people that actually do work in an organization.
But unusually smart? Not at all. Some actual evidence:
- SAT scores by major [statisticbrain.com], business majors have an average SAT of 999 out of 1600, while physics majors have an average SAT of 1269 out of 1600.
- Estimated IQ by profession [iqcomparisonsite.com]. The smart people in the world tend to cluster in medicine, science, engineering, law, and academia, while managers are, on the whole, slightly above mediocre. (Another favorite finding from that list: It turns out that secretaries are often smarter than their bosses, which matches my real-life experience as well)
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