"In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence."Laurence J Peter
Educator/Author ("The Peter Principle")
Educator/Author ("The Peter Principle")
This quote comes from "The Peter Principle", a 1968 book that I believe still resonates today.
Do we have upper bounds beyond which we cannot go no matter what we do to improve ourselves? Before you answer, understand that Dr. Peter did not say how the incompetence occurs; only that it happens.
In some cases, one's incompetence is self-induced.
Do we have upper bounds beyond which we cannot go no matter what we do to improve ourselves? Before you answer, understand that Dr. Peter did not say how the incompetence occurs; only that it happens.
In some cases, one's incompetence is self-induced.
I don't understand self-induced incompetence. Please explain.
ReplyDeleteIf for whatever reason the employee stops growing and learning, trying to be better at what they do, that will lead to self-induced incompetence. And I think many do just that for a variety of reasons, some there own fault, others not.
ReplyDeletei believe that people do have upper bounds but that's not necessarily a bad thing. not everyone was meant to be president, a senior manager, etc.
ReplyDeletehaving said that, it's not wrong to continually test the limits of one's upper bounds since age, experience, new training, etc can help to continuously expand one's upper bound limits - even if it's incremental expansion.