Dr. Peter observed that one reason so many employees are incompetent is that the skills required to get a job often have nothing to do with what is r… - Laurence J. Peter

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.

You will see that in every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours.

Such an extreme policy will not be generally tolerated. So, to avoid the accumulation of incompetents, administrators have evolved the plan of promoting everyone, the incompetent as well as the competent. They find psychological justification for this policy by saying that it spares students the painful experience of failure.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.