Drinking the kool-aid and spewing the company jargon in every meeting with your direct reports and executive leadership instead of talking on their level and really listening to what they have to say to understand what's going on? You'll get promoted.
Worried about low-priority, high-visibility tasks that you can tell executive leadership about when your reports spend precious hours to complete them, instead of tackling the real work? You'll get promoted.
No people skills, but can manage your work like a robot, using that cold, unfeeling persona with a knack to write long-a– emails that would put the length and complexity of "Anna Karenina" to shame? You'll get promoted.
Memorized the credo like it's your mother's birthday and keeping a fresh version of it as the screensaver of your desktop? You'll get promoted.
Far, too many people within this company have no business in the leadership roles they are in. Are they good workers? Sure. Should they be 'leaders'? Well, look at the state of the company and ask that question again. Don't just look at your direct manager, look above them. Look higher. Look at the tippity top of the flowchart. Is your Director qualified to manage your group? Is your VP? CEO? Ask yourself how they got there. Who did they 'know'? Did they truly earn their positions or did they just have that k–ler smile, get-it-done personality with absolutely no skill to lead? Maybe they slept with their managers at one time - old fashioned but still happens. It has happened here. Maybe somebody took them under their wing, thinking they were the next big thing, only to promote them and leave the company, (get pushed out), leaving the rest of us to have to 'deal' with the fallout of a very poor decision to promote somebody inept to lead.
Just because you're good and managing work, writing emails, and spewing the company jargon does not mean you're good to lead a company. Just because you don't have a life and put in a sixteen hour day, doesn't mean you're management material. Just because you have the executive leadership's mantra burned in your brain and read all the current leadership books on Amazon doesn't mean you're right or fit to run this company, let alone, a team of people.
Until this company's real leaders (are there any?) look down the chain and realize that there are far too many yes-men and yes-women (especially the latter) that don't know a thing about leading people and leading a company, this company is doomed. Again, how can you lead when you don't have the experience because either you were promoted too soon or shouldn't have been promoted at all?
If you want to stay with this company, make change. Make noise. Point out the fakers in your leadership. Stop taking this lying down. Too many people in the wrong roles are driving this company to the brink of failure. It quite possibly may be too late, but if you want your job at least a little bit longer, stop being complacent with the lack of experience your leadership has and ask, "should you be leading this company?" While you're at it, as yourself, "should they be my manager?"
Or you, yourself, can continue to drink the kool-aid and taking the beatings. Oh, look out, there's another email in your in-box from your Director... better grab a drink, this one looks longer than this morning's email from her...