Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2023-03-16

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

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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.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

  1. THE PETER PRINCIPLE WHY THINGS ALWAYS GO WRONG

    Dr. Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull · at 24:20

    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.”
    Where to get it