Why Your Meritocracy Isn’t Working.
4 min readApr 24, 2022
Internal Competition Drives Toxic Behaviors
The idea of a workplace meritocracy sounds great. If you perform, you succeed. Privilege and politics don’t factor into the equation. The hardest workers and best performers get ahead while those less dedicated do not.
In theory, meritocracies work well. Reality, however, is a different story.