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Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace and success. I'm Ashley Milne Tite.

This time, why are so many leaders bad at their jobs and could their sex have anything to do with it?

When you ask people, who wants to do something, who wants to be in charge, who wants to be successful, the people who raise their hand may or not have talent.

For sure, more men than women are going to raise their hands. So instead of blaming women for

not leaning in, how about we stop falling for people, usually men, who lean in when they don't

have the talents to back it up? Most of us give our leaders a failing grade. Would that change, if more of them were women?

Coming up on the broad experience.

A few months ago, one of my guests was Financial Times writer Polita Clark.

When we spoke in our episode about women and mediocrity, she brought up a book she'd read and I'd heard about.

Its title, Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become leaders and how to fix it?

Thomas Chamorro-Premuzik is the author of that book.

He's also chief talent scientist for Manpower Group, a huge staffing firm.

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