Why Do the Least Qualified Often End Up in Power?
Machiavelli saw it coming centuries ago—and modern psychology backs him up.
This video unpacks the unsettling truth: confidence, charisma, and cunning often outrank competence when it comes to climbing the ladder. From CEOs to politicians, it’s not always the best and brightest who rise to the top.
Explore the dark side of leadership and what it means for you, your workplace, and the world.
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Everyone knew it was an incredibly #stupid idea when Scott Morrison signed the ANKUS deal! But he wanted that state dinner in Washington DC, but he wanted speaking gigs in the US conservative circuit after he left office! 
The USA only wants the Australian taxpayers' money. They have no intention to deliver, let alone to provide security to Australia. But if they invade others, we are bounded to join 
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@ahermitforhire Reminds me a bit of this incident a while ago here where a man came out to tell our then asshole PM to get off his lawn in the middle of a press conference. https://youtu.be/t17O2AKa2FU?si=lKUkmZELIS3IyzsA
Strangely I remember this being a lot more yelling at the time, and hilarious. Maybe you can go out and yell at your annoyance to do the same.
I bumped into #ScoMo in the lift a couple of times about 20 years ago. Ergo, there’s a nonzero chance he’ll try to comp me a copy of his book, too. 
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“I leave this place appreciative and thankful, unburdened by offences and released from any bitterness that can so often haunt post-political lives,” Morrison said. “This is due to my faith in Jesus Christ which gives me the faith to both forgive but also to be honest about my own failings and shortcomings.”
Um… honest about my own failings and shortcomings.
No he's not. He's always right. Failings and shortcomings are always someone else's. I have not known anyone else with so much hubris.
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@theconversationau Imagine being compared with such a terrible person as #ScoMo, and still looking like a class reunion of high-school rejects?
Makes sure the door doesn’t hit you on the way out! Bye bye! 
Always remember, even less people like you now then did then. 
ScoMo's bullshit about #China was so spectacularly counter productive that I often wondered whose side he was on. Were they paying him under the table as a professional wolf warrior punching bag? Or is he really just that much of an idiot?
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#TOMRED @tomred43 #cartoon: Hey look, everyone! It's that lying liar who lies, lying about lying again.#Robodebt #auspol #ScottMorrison #scomo #LiarFromTheShire #RoboDebtRC #alttext
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@timrichards I think the piece isn't as comprehensive as it could be (albeit with limited column space). Morrison was disgraceful and arguably the worst PM Aus had suffered through, however the chutzpah and effrontery with which he dismisses royal commission findings is characteristic of an antagonism, even antipathy, towards democratic processes. Of course, the man would reject the findings of an RC that had comprehensively investigated and taken testimony from hundreds. He, messianic as he is wont to be, rejects such clap trap. So there.
My point is that he's not isolated. The rise of Morrison coincided with Trump, Johnston and Bolsonaro to name only three leaders who all are poisonously vacuous and devoid of values other than self interest. Morrison gave no real rebuttal to the notion that he cared for nothing other than himself and to a lesser extent his colleagues political welfare. All leaders were antagonistic to democracy. Almost allergic. Not just accountability and oversight, they disliked parliament and even the people on their own side who upheld the principles of that place.
It's behaviour and mentality that's beyond arrogance - it's anti democractic. The man was, and remains, a cancer on our polity.
If Jacinda Adern says she does not have enough in the tank to press on, then SCOMO was running on empty for decades. I know which one is better, too! #auspol #scomo #jacindaadern