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To: knarf
The Peter Principle theorizes that employees in most organizational hierarchies automatically rise through promotion to higher positions. However, competent employees will be promoted, but will ultimately assume positions for which they are incompetent.

The Peter Principle was superseded by the Dilbert Principle1 three decades ago.


1 Companies systematically promote their least-competent employees to management positions to limit the damage they can do, instead of putting them in positions where real work is done.

16 posted on 06/10/2024 11:28:09 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits
Companies systematically promote their least-competent employees to management positions to limit the damage they can do, instead of putting them in positions where real work is done.

Unless you're Anheuser-Busch.

17 posted on 06/10/2024 11:35:12 AM PDT by AF_Blue (My decision-making skills closely resemble those of a squirrel when crossing a road)
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To: T.B. Yoits

I always understood the Peter principle to be a promotion to where you were least effective and there you’d stay . . . promoted to peak incompetence.


24 posted on 06/10/2024 11:48:30 AM PDT by knarf (BEC)
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To: T.B. Yoits

The Peter Principle was superseded by the Dilbert Principle1 three decades ago.


Only for those who don’t read good books but can relate to cartoons.........................


55 posted on 06/10/2024 2:05:37 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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