Dummies on big money

jobs for the boys

at a certain level its networking that gets you jobs

RTE would be worse than most place for it, even the new guy in is really the old guy 😁

no one questions it

You still have to have qualifications to be CFO of any company.

How to do it is to get some qualifications, then specialise in something that's current at the time you want to make your move, compliance for example but could be anything network a lot. Then move around every few years.

Most C Suite level people I have worked with/for are very far from dumdums. Nearly all are very hard working and very fcuking ruthless.

Many give the appearance of not doing much but they are usually excellent delegators.

any company ive worked in the top brass are fairly sharp,switched on and on top of their jobs...rte i think are the exception

agreed. if they earn more money than you, then theryre not dummies, unless, you the OP are very much a dummy,.

....we tend to respond well to more narcissistic personalities, we tend to overlook major short comings, potential red flags etc etc, for whatever reasons, many high level, high paid people would posse such traits, then when we eventually question them, they turn on another narcissistic trait, the denial of responsibility, and round and round we go.....

...oh and theres plenty of evidence in many professions of such behaviors, particularly those that provide great supply for such individuals....

...will it change.....probably not!

They're not really dumdums though, they likely have above average but not exceptional intelligence. They are skilled at politicking, profile raising and manipulation. Life isn't a meritocracy and having reasonable intelligence and a hardneck is a good combination for success. Greed and hubris can trip them up though.

Look at Oireachtas committee meetings and corporate meetings generally -people are not straight with each other, they ask questions that they already know the answer to to catch out others or bounce them into doing something. How many IQ 145+ people, with autistic traits do well in such an environment? Even in academia where one would think that the most academically gifted would thrive, politics and competition for scare resources (grants/funding) sees to it that this often doesn't happen.

Out of my class in college, one of the individuals who has done the best out of all of us (would be on well into 6 figures) had mediocre ability and was an arsehole. Was constantly up the lecturers' arses looking for exam hints, still didn't do great in his exams in the end. Still got a job before anyone else. Then he was involved in several controversies which resulted in him "leaving" various jobs - yet this doesn't appear to have impacted his career at all.

what are you trying to say and what qualifications do you need

whats a midwit?

Most have some business background for sure, but what is this point?

getting a pass in some business degree isn't exactly hard

look at these guys

what business is this, because everyone knows absolute stinkers in all businesses, they also know some good ones

Not making excuses for anyone in RTE, but put anyone in the pressurised surroundings of an Oireachtas committee, with questions being fired at them on a very messy set of issues and limited opportunities to give proper replies, and they will rarely come well out of it. The great majority of people in the country are not in jobs where their performance is publicly scrutinised in front of politicians, the media and the public. It's worth asking yourself "how would I do in that situation?" The honest answer is probably "not as well as I might like to think".

Not all need to be like that but it's rare to get on without networking and politicking, another skill I admire is the ability to be friendly with everyone but friends with no one ( in a work situation ) but do it in a way that's not obvious that is the skill.

So who did he know then? I am fairly sure that aren't handing out MBAs to idiots, plus if all it takes is spoofing why aren't more doing it?