Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2023-03-16
Books mentioned on Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses? (Ep. 495 Replay)
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.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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THE PETER PRINCIPLE WHY THINGS ALWAYS GO WRONG
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong by Dr.
Discussed“The book he wrote with Raymond Hall was called The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong. It wound up selling millions of copies.”
