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The Peter Principle:
Occupational incompetence is everywhere. Have you noticed it? Probably we all have noticed it.
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The Peter Principle:
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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The Peter Principle:
For each individual, for you, for me, the final promotion is from a level of competence to a level of incompetence.
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The Peter Principle:
…the only move that we can accept as a genuine promotion is a move from a level of competence.
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The Peter Principle:
Without being raised in rank… the incompetent employee is given a new and longer title and is moved to an office in a remote part of the building.
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The Peter Principle:
To the professional automaton it is clear that means are more important than ends; the paperwork is more important than the purpose for which it was originally designed.
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The Peter Principle:
…[the] professional automaton has… little capacity for independent judgment. He always obeys, never decides.
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The Peter Principle:
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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The Peter Principle:
…in most hierarchies, super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence.
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The Peter Principle:
Super-competence often leads to dismissal, because it disrupts the hierarchy, and thereby violates the first commandment of hierarchical life: the hierarchy must be preserved.
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