Counterintuitive Facts (22): Why Does the Boss Always Promote the Stupidest Person?

I. Have you ever felt this is an eternal mystery: That middle manager is clearly incompetent at his job, can't even use Excel, just shouts slogans, holds meetings, shares the boss's social media posts all day. But he gets promoted fastest, the boss loves him. While you, the backbone, work overtime daily but never advance. You think the boss is blind?

II. Venkatesh Rao, based on the TV series "The Office," proposed an extremely dark but accurate organizational theory: The Gervais Principle.

III. Any large organization is composed of three layers:

First Layer: Sociopaths Top level. Founders or core executives. They're smart, cold, power seeking, morally unburdened. They know the company's vision, mission, values are all bullshit. But they fabricate this bullshit to drive the people below to