Alas… Incompetent Leadership Is Called “The Peter Principle”
Quartz
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3/2/18
“The Peter principle, the eponymous scholar [Laurence J. Peter] explained, happens when any employee in a hierarchy rises to the level of his or her own incompetence… Organizations, Peter and his co-author Raymond Hull argued, tend to reward rank-and-file high performers with promotions to management, even though the roles demand utterly different skills.”