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I’d like to see a study on how incompetent tech leads get and maintain their high paying jobs. The poor leadership traits described are the bare minimum competencies I’d think.
I have friends in the games industry. Stunningly bad and arrogant leadership seems to be the norm.

Make a random dude (it is usually a dude) a manager in a games company and suddenly he thinks he is a brilliant game designer with all the right answers overruling more experienced people.

Until the game flops and he is fired (or not if a good friend of the CEO).

Rince and repeat until bankruptcy.

This is just an article about bad leadership, with game dev as the given example.

These things are universal, and I assume must be taught. You couldn’t arrive at the same output so pervasively by chance.