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In time I saw that all such cases had a common feature. The employee had been promoted from a position of competence to a position of incompetence. I saw that, sooner or later, this could happen to every employee in every hierarchy.

Laurence J. Peter
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong by Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull (1994) Paperback

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Laurence Johnston Peter (16 September 1919 – 12 January 1990) was a Canadian educator and management theorist, most famous for having formulated the Peter Principle.

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