in most hierarchies, super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence.” He warned that extremely skilled and productive employees often face … - Laurence J. Peter

In most hierarchies, super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence.

Any government, whether it is a democracy, a dictatorship, a communistic or free enterprise bureaucracy, will fall when its hierarchy reaches an intolerable state of maturity.

If man is going to rescue himself from a future intolerable existence, he must first see where his unmindful escalation is leading him. He must examine his objectives and see that true progress is achieved through moving forward to a better way of life, rather than upward to total life incompetence

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.