Read that once again..
"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence!!"
The sentence (or The Principle) hit me so hard, that I spent an hour trying to make sense out of it.. An hour of office time, that too..It bothered me at some level.. Was it making fun of me and my abilities??
Then I wrote it down, on pen and paper, and then it made sense..
Much as it sounds funny, and satirical, I think it makes perfect sense. It means that you keep rising in an organization till such time that your incompetence doesn't let you go any further.
It doesn't mean that your boss is incompetent...
That would have been too easy..
And then it wasn't so much fun to read that line..
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Sir ji, there is one more Principle, I come to know while reading about Peter Principle. It is also one of very interesting principle “Dilbert Principle”
The Dilbert Principle, by contrast, assumes that hierarchy just serves as a means for removing the incompetent to "higher" positions where they will be unable to cause damage to the workflow, assuming that the upper echelons of an organization have little relevance to its actual production, and that the majority of real, productive work in a company is done by people lower in the power ladder. An earlier formulation of this effect is known as Putt's Law.
Dang - so this is the rule that is limiting my upward growth. And all the while I thought it was me... I think my manager knows about it as well...
As true as it sounds I still believe its this principle coupled with "Negative selection" that rules the roost...
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