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His name foretold his doom. 2
He was good at his job, too good it seemed. The promotion was not something he had expected. 3
Two tumultuous weeks in, he knew it was beyond his abilities. Rather than admit defeat he decided to ride it out to gather material for his newest book, "Living the Peter Principle."4
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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.
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I"ve never heard of the peter principle before...this was really a learning lesson in only 55 words. I liked it!!
Sam
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There are those who are prepared for advancement,a nd those who have it thrust upon them. It is the later that fall into this trap.
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I do not see it so much anymore in my field since you have to have a licence to do the various jobs. The only exception is the nursing managers, but they are all fairly competent where I am at.
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Why does it not surprise me that you would have an actual list of these things! I was talking to someone about this and the idea came up.
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This is personally interesting, because my sweetie's name is Peter, and he is currently taking the competency tests for the big promotion to the executive level.
(So far so good, this time he studied how to take the test.)
I would rather see a comma rather than "and" in "Two weeks in and", otherwise, very nice prose, and a sympathetic situation.
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Very well written. The problem when management overestimates potential. This hits home to me as a coach.
Well written
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Poor Peter Principle...but should I be so lucky. I began at my level of incompetence.
I once had a list of 100's of those princples, funny stuff.
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Quite interesting.
Cheryl
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This is the foundation for which many organizations feed. Gosh, especially county which I can say from experience. OH yes. Wouldn't it be cool if there was like, a YOU ARE THE WEAKEST LINK, GOODBYE mentality instead
Course, I could be reading too much into this... naw.
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