Run for Something co-founder: 'Democrats' reliance on seniority is our downfall'

[Rob H.]

11. One lesson from the corporate world that's stuck with me

is that there's often a marked difference between doing something for a long time and doing it well.

I once worked for a VP who proudly said he'd been in marketing for 30 years and he was the single most incompetent boss I've ever had, just a falling face-forward into cream pies with his pants around his ankles bumbling idiot. If I'd been him I wouldn't have bragged about my qualifications because seeing him in action told me that his current level of competence--complete ineptitude--was as good as he ever got. I've no doubt that literally anyone else could've done far better with exactly the same opportunities he had.