> If you don't have a good management system in place then identifying who "merits" promotion is extremely difficult and is often based not on how someone performs but how much they are liked by the decision makers of the company.

Worth noting that a typical "management system" simply re-enforces these "likeability" biases with a bunch of phony paperwork.

(Not that I didn't like this article. I came here to the comments kind of puzzled why it was flagged.)