[ale] pyramids??

Paul Cartwright ale at pcartwright.com
Tue Jul 8 14:06:47 EDT 2008


On Tue July 8 2008, Scott Castaline wrote:
> The Peter Paul Principle, "Promote to the point of incompetency." I
> might have the name of the principle mangled a bit as my memory ain't
> the same as it used to be and it was about 30 years ago.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Peter+Principle
Peter Principle
n.
The theory that employees within an organization will advance to their highest 
level of competence and then be promoted to and remain at a level at which 
they are incompetent.
[After Laurence Johnston Peter (1919-1990).]

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