The Becker-Posner Blog: Intelligence and Leadership--Posner
talks about the limited " versatility of combined general-specific human capital that a lateral entrant brings to a high level government job of a managerial or advisory rather than technical character." In other words smart people might just be bad managers for three reasons: 1) intelligent people often neglect other traits of good management and rely only on intelligence, 2) logical reasoning does not always provide the best way to solve political problems, 3) smart people often don't listen to staff who are not as smart as they are but might know more about a specific problem.
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