Question:
>>I find it disturbing he can't find work as a project manager.
Answer:
>>If anything, that's one role where the practitioners typically know -all about nothing and where good ones are worth their weight in gold.
>>Instead, more often than not, you get 20-30-something "management fast-track" wannabe's who could not solve a problem to save their lives.
You answered your own question. Nobody (wants to)hires people better than them and end up creating impossible-to-defeat competition at work. This is regardless of whatever people might claim about wanting to hire the best.
Answer: >>If anything, that's one role where the practitioners typically know -all about nothing and where good ones are worth their weight in gold. >>Instead, more often than not, you get 20-30-something "management fast-track" wannabe's who could not solve a problem to save their lives.
You answered your own question. Nobody (wants to)hires people better than them and end up creating impossible-to-defeat competition at work. This is regardless of whatever people might claim about wanting to hire the best.