Not The Smartest in the Room

If you think you’re the smartest person in the room… congratulations—you’ve just found the wrong room. Or worse, you’re that manager everyone avoids like an “optional” Friday Zoom meeting that somehow isn’t optional.In this episode of Ignoring the Rules, Wayne Robertson throws a full-blown roast for every know-it-all leader who thinks Google was invented just to confirm their opinions. He’s torching egos, popping delusions, and explaining why hiring people smarter than you isn’t a threat—it’s called good management, not insecurity with Wi-Fi.You’ll laugh, you’ll cringe, and you might even check your last team meeting for emotional damage. Because here’s the truth: if your team isn’t smarter than you, you didn’t build a dream team—you built a fan club. And fan clubs don’t finish projects… they just clap while everything burns.