When someone who has been in their role for less than a year is promoted to a leadership role when it’s preached that you need yrs and yrs of experience to go into that role (director levl). Wtf.

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My agency hired an Associate Director of Strategy who has like 2-3 years of actual strategy experience and writes 8 page briefs without spell-checking or understanding the clients business so...

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Let me guess, a white male, right?

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Don’t be jealous. This person will be exposed for his or her incompetence sooner or later.

I became a director after about 3 years. With no leadership experience. Just a ton of ideas and organizational thinking.

SD1, ding ding ding

Did they come with experience elsewhere? Did they join at a lower level despite Director level offers elsewhere? Do you know the whole story?

@Huge 1, yes. They were an SAE a year ago, and have been a sup for 8 months

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