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everyone I've met who does it is Oxbridge
This surprises me. The situation / behaviour you describe is, in my experience, pretty pervasive among mediocre managers from all educational backgrounds. Maybe it doesn't have the same underlying class drivers as when "Oxbridge people" do it though, not that that effects the outcome.
NickCJ
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FWIW in my experience the flaw of many (not all) Oxbridge people is not stupidity but arrogance. They are certainly smart but they overestimate the gap between themselves and everyone else, especially in areas where they themselves have less direct experience, so they ask the questions they think are important, don't listen when people are giving viewpoints they didn't ask for, take the info and go and work on it in isolation, then come back and get annoyed that everyone else wasn't following the assumptions they made but never validated.
It's not that everyone Oxbridge does this, but everyone I've met who does it is Oxbridge.