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The Peter Principle: "Every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence" In fact it's a consequence of individual interests trumping any collective/c
by pphysch 5y ago
The Peter Principle: "Every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence"
In fact it's a consequence of individual interests trumping any collective/company interests. Selfishness trumping loyalty. Hey, it's the American way.
A clearer and less snappy interpretation:
"In companies/cultures with low cohesion, employees will tend to maximize their personal compensation at the expense of all other factors, including the aggregate performance of the company"
- robocat 5y ago> Every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence In software development, you are expected to learn, to become competent. For example hires direct from university are usually incompetent at the time of their first employment. The most successful people I know are always at the edge of their competence or beyond the edge, but their competence envelope increases over time.
- pphysch 5y agoThere are definitely examples of innovation/mission-driven companies in any industry, but the entrenched, conservative ones (IBM, Oracle, Adobe?, etc) have a lot of Peter Principle going on. I have personal anecdotes about that. MBA- vs. Product-led orgs, <insert Steve Jobs quote>, and all that.