You're Promoting Confidence, Not Leadership

A contractor lead walked into our org with strong language, strong opinions, and all the right lead-shaped signals ... then a basic desktop and mobile navigation effort took about 6 months. That gap is why I say if your system rewards how someone sounds in the room more than what their team can consistently ship, you are buying charisma at a leadership price tag. I am not talking about someone we were considering promoting. I am talking about someone who came in already positioned as a lead from