December 2009
7 posts
WatchNorman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan Debating 1968
Random Promotions
Promoting employees randomly creates better company efficiency than promotions based on performance.
In 1969, the Canadian psychologist Laurence J. Peter posited the “Peter Principle”: people in a workplace are promoted until they reach their “level of incompetence.” This happens, Peter argued, because we wrongly assume that people who are good at their jobs will also be...
