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If The Peter Principle Is Right, We Should Randomly Promote People

By Robert I. Sutton on October 5, 2010 in Work Matters

The 2010 Ig Nobel prizes were handed out on September 30th, and one of the prizes was awarded to a simulation that demonstrated -- if the Peter Principle is true -- that organizations would be better off promoting employees randomly rather than promoting people until they they reach their level of incompetence.

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Bob Sutton is an organizational psychologist, Stanford professor, and author of five books including bestseller The No Asshole Rule and Good Boss, Bad Boss (September, 2010).

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