Managing The Future

Managing The Future

How to Promote Someone into Management

Who is "management material"?

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Joel Trammell
Sep 10, 2025
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I’m tempted to say there’s a “managerial crisis” in the modern organization.

But the truth is that companies have struggled for a long time at getting the right people into management.

It was a problem back when The Peter Principle was published in 1969, arguing that the least competent people end up in roles of authority.

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