Before, some previous facts: Years ago, we (the JUG leader team) decided to adopt a meritocratic system, where normal members can become JUG leaders when they show constant contributions to the community and some level of leadership. The best example of meritocracy I’ve ever seen happened in CEJUG in 2008. Then you have two options: quit as soon as possible or adapt yourself to the true reality.

If you are like that and you are still waiting for recognition, it means that you are a meritocratic in a non-meritocratic system. To be part of a meritocracy is all about entrepreneurship with managed expectations, which means you have to do your best and don’t expect for immediate recognition. If you become very disappointed when your closest colleague is promoted and you are not or you work exactly on the boundaries of your rule or salary, then meritocracy may not be a good social system for you. There are also those who deserve or not to be in a meritocracy. If you want to find meritocratic leaders, keep in mind that they have an unquestionable passion for their dreams and they know that they need very good people around them to support those dreams. Leaders with this profile are very rare, which makes meritocracy a difficult system to implement or it is implemented in a wrong way. To deploy a meritocratic system, a leader should have an open mind, be able to observe people, identify their abilities, understand their weaknesses, recognize every single good action, and, the most important, do not differentiate people by personal affinity. Meritocracy is not perfect, as democracy is nether. In a meritocracy, she doesn’t have to convince, she has to prove her competence and other skills. In a democracy, a person can get higher positions in the society just because she can convince other people about her competence.

In my humble opinion, it is a subclass of Democracy, but with highly honest and fair people even with their worse enemies. I think “Meritocracy” is a very beautiful concept. In a meritocracy, society rewards (by wealth, position, and social status) those who demonstrated talent and competence, demonstrated through past actions or by competition.” – Wikipedia ( Meritocracy) “Meritocracy is a system of a government or another organization wherein appointments are made and responsibilities are given based on demonstrated talent and ability (merit), rather than by wealth (plutocracy), family connections (nepotism), class privilege (oligarchy), cronyism, tenurocracy (based in seniority), popularity (as in democracy) or other historical determinants of social position and political power.

Meritocratic plutocracy