The Peter principle is how people get promoted for doing their current job well — until they reach a role they're bad at, and there they stay. Examples:
What is the peter principle? Read the full idea →Brilliant at selling, hopeless at managing — promoted out of the very thing they were good at.
Loses the coding they loved and excelled at for meetings they're poor at.
Almost everyone rises to the level where they stop being good — and stops there.
The reward for great work is a job that needs entirely different skills.
Smart companies offer raises and senior individual-contributor tracks, not just management, to avoid it.
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