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Competence is an ability; confidence is the belief in that ability.

Freud argued that a leader emerges when a group of people - the followers - have replaced their own narcissism with that of the leader, so that their love for the leader is a subliminal form of self love.

How can rational people who have their own best interests at heart fall for charismatic con artists who promise them the impossible while pursuing harmful agendas and corrupt selfish interests?

How can smart and educated people make self-destructive leadership choices, political term after term, without learning the lessons from previous failures.

How odd, then, that so much of the recent debate over getting more women into leadership positions has focused on encouraging them to mimic the maladaptive behaviours of ambitious men. Do you really want to ask women to replicate a broken model?

In most part of the world, the notion of leadership is so masculine that most people will struggle to name one famous female business leader.

Since we all want better leaders, we should not lower our standards when we select women, but we should raise them when we select men.

Specifically, women elicit more respect and pride from their followers, communicate their vision more effectively, better empower and mentor their subordinates, approach problem solving in a more flexible and creative way; and are fairer and more objective in their evaluation of direct reports.

There is a world of difference between the personality traits and behaviours it takes to be chosen as a leader and the traits and skills you need to be able to lead.

The result is a pathologic system that rewards men for their incompetence while punishing women for their competence.

...the under-representation of women in leadership was not due to their lack of ability or motivation, but due to our inability to detect incompetence in men.

This book explores a central question: what if these two observations - that most leaders are bad and that most leaders are male - are casually linked?

When men are considered for leadership positions, the same traits that predict their downfall are commonly mistaken - even celebrated - as a sign of leadership or talent.