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Muscles posted...

I feel like every good boss I had started at the bottom and worked their way up within the company

If they've worked in a similar company in a management position, then they may very well be far more qualified at management in general than anyone below them in the hierarchy. At which point all they really need to do is learn the specifics of the corporate culture of the specific company they're now in.

You also need to consider things like the Peter Principle - ie, just because someone is good at a low-level jobs in the company, it doesn't mean they'll be remotely competent in a management position regardless of their experience. Because management roles in general are often qualitatively different from the direct tasks they oversee.

I'd be willing to agree that in some cases people who are promoted up the ladder may be more effective than people brought in laterally from outside, but I'd never accept it as a universal rule. Because there are plenty of scenarios where the opposite would be true.



Muscles posted...

it seems like people hired straight into management has little to no idea how the jobs of the people they manage actually work so regularly make stupid ass decisions.

Unless you work your way through every single job in the company in order, there's a good chance that people promoted upward from underneath might not have any idea what the people under them are doing either. The higher the manager and the more people they have under them, the more likely it becomes that they'll have never directly interacted with a number of those positions in their own roles.

As for stupid decisions, pretty much anyone is capable of making them, for a multitude of reasons. Sometimes it's because they're pressured into making bad decisions by people above them in the chain. Sometimes they're aware of circumstances that the people below them aren't, so their decisions can seem worse than they actually are. And so on. And a lot of those reasons will apply regardless of whether or not the person was promoted into management from below or from outside.