A Yale Law professor walked into the Oxford Union and told a room full of elite students they were not there because they were the smartest. They were there because someone spent the most money developing them. Professor Daniel Markovits was talking about education. But the argument lands differently when you apply it to a corporate org chart. I build on this in my latest piece on The Ladder Problem. Link in the comments. #Meritocracy #LeadershipDevelopment #TheLadderProblem #FutureOfWork #AILeadership | 281 comments on LinkedIn