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"Promoted to their level of incompetence" is a phrase I've heard before to describe this phenomenon.
by anon73044 7y ago
"Promoted to their level of incompetence" is a phrase I've heard before to describe this phenomenon.
- ncmncm 7y agoThere is a whole book.
- cpeterso 7y agoThe book is The Peter Principle: "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." This leads to Peter's Corollary: "In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties." The Wikipedia article is a pretty thorough summary of the book: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
- oarabbus_ 7y agoThat's a good one too - but the fact that managers are promoted to their level of incompetence, while engineers are DEMOTED to their level of incompetence... it makes it quite hard to justify staying on the technical track for all but the most talented of engineers (which 98% of engineers are not)