Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing. - Laurence J. Peter

Occupational incompetence is everywhere. Have you noticed it? Probably we all have noticed it.

one reason so many employees are incompetent is that the skills required to get a job often have nothing to do with what is required to do the job itself.

in most hierarchies, super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence.” He warned that extremely skilled and productive employees often face criticism, and are fired if they don’t start performing worse. Their presence “disrupts and therefore violates the first commandment of hierarchical life: the hierarchy must be preserved.