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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.
Like Nick says I feel that this is poor leadership and absolutely pervasive.
I should know - I have to work really hard to stop myself from doing it!
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Yeah, but I'm not talking about leaders. This is more like failing to properly understand their part in a shared task because they don't realise they need to check in with what everyone else is doing rather than assuming they already know.
Maybe that's it...they believe themselves to be leaders in any context so act like (bad) ones even in peer groups.
brokenbetty
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.