Level of incompetence

Written on 9:49 PM by ./dave

I ran across an idea on wikipedia that has been intriguing me, called the Peter Principal.  From Wikipedia:

It holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"), and there they remain. Peter's Corollary states that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties" and adds that "work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence".

Genius, my friends.  Genius.

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