Incompetent Managers & The Peter Principle

Have you ever heard of the Peter principle? I guarantee you can relate to this one. This was from a book published over 50 years ago by Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull that basically states people are promoted for their current performance, not for their demonstration of skills to be successful in the job they are being promoted to. It was written more as satire on the realities of leadership hierarchies based on research by Peter.

It’s still one of the biggest problems that businesses face today. Someone called this out over 50 years ago, really as a joke, and yet this is still probably the biggest problem for leadership and management. And here’s why.

The point, the moral, the climax, or conclusion of the story is that employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not translate to another. The authors state that employees rise to a level of respective incompetence.

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I had a manager who was incredibly incompetent even though I had years of experience and what I have done and the knowledge and know how that manager would ask me to do some really stupid things they did not compromise my safety so me and my coworkers did what we were asked and when they backfire we told even higher management we're just doing what our boss was telling us not questioning orders and I told the higher up if you made one of us manager none of this would ever happen that manager got fired and one of my co-worker who been there longer than me got the management position and we finally have someone who know what they're doing and the much higher up are very happy because they no longer getting screw up that cost the company a lot of money now they're saving quite a bit of money because they finally made the right person in the manager