The Peter Principle
Most people start out as doers, and they have a
function; they’re a marketing person, a human-resource person, a finance
person, a production person. And they get really good at doing that as they
gain more experience. The reason they usually get promoted is not because
someone innately thought that the person would make a great manager. They get promoted because they were a great
doer. Is the same person going to be a great manager? Sometimes yes, sometimes
no. The Peter Principle holds that as people
get promoted again and again, they keep doing less and managing more
until they get to a point where they stop getting promoted because they’re not
as good at their new job. The Peter Principle says that you end up in the job
you’re the worst at.
