Why Are We Still Promoting Incompetent Men?

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, a psychologist and chief talent scientist
at ManpowerGroup, says we're not picking leaders in the right way.
While we should be promoting people based on their competence and
potential, it's often the incompetent, overconfident candidates --
most of them men -- who get ahead. Studies show that, by many
measures, women are actually better equipped to become strong,
successful managers. But the solution to getting more of them into
the executive ranks isn't quotas or other initiatives that mandate
gender diversity. To improve leadership across the board, we need
to focus on the metrics proven to enhance performance and set
higher standards for everyone. Chamorro-Premuzic is also a
professor of business psychology at University College London and
Columbia University, and the author of the book "Why Do So Many
Incompetent Men Become Leaders?: (And How to Fix It)" (Harvard
Business Review Press, 2019).