What is the 'Peter Principle'
The Peter Principle is an observation that the tendency in most organizational hierarchies, such as that of a corporation, is for every employee to rise in the hierarchy through promotion until they reach the levels of their respective incompetence. The Peter Principle is based on the logical idea that competent employees will continue to be promoted, but at some point will be promoted into positions for which they are incompetent,
and they will then remain in those positions because of the fact that they do not demonstrate any further competence that would get them recognized for additional promotion. According to the Peter Principle, every position in a given hierarchy will eventually be filled by employees who are incompetent to fulfill the job duties of their respective positions.
Sound familiar, it's rife in this company. That in addition to CX probably 15 years ago (Swire DFO's) went total "liberal" and stopped being a Meritocracy and more or less went "seniority" at all levels. Look what's happened - same as the CAD.... It's all over but the crying..
Say no more......
