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To: eyedigress

What Does Peter Principle Mean?
An observation that in an organizational hierarchy, every employee will rise or get promoted to his or her level of incompetence. The Peter Principle is based on the notion that employees will get promoted as long as they are competent, but at some point will fail to get promoted beyond a certain job because it has become too challenging for them. Employees rise to their level of incompetence and stay there. Over time, every position in the hierarchy will be filled by someone who is not competent enough to carry out his or her new duties.


16 posted on 03/11/2011 8:21:46 PM PST by Bronzy (We Remembered In November.)
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To: Bronzy

I believe departments everywhere have done this for the last 30 years. I recall people being denied a chance to serve because their scores were too HIGH.


22 posted on 03/11/2011 8:29:25 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: Bronzy

YOU mean like Obama?


121 posted on 03/13/2011 4:50:30 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin 2012)
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