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 lif… - Laurence J. Peter

true progress is achieved through moving forward to a better way of life, rather than upward to total life incompetence.

La competencia de un empleado no es determinada por los extraños, sino por su superior en la jerarquía.

It is true that work can expand to fill the time allotted but it can expand far beyond that. It can expand beyond the life of the organization and the company can go bankrupt, a government can fall, a civilization can crumble into barbarism, while the incompetents work on.

All, from police forces to armed forces, are rigid hierarchies of salaried employees, and all are necessarily cumbered with incompetents who cannot do their existing work, cannot be promoted, yet cannot be removed.