The world as we know it is made up of people and then you have the Peter Principle!
Introduced in a Book of the same name by Laurence J. Peter and R Suttton!
It is an interesting principle which effectively states that everyone in an organization reaches to his or her own level of incompetence and peaks!
There are plenty of examples of this and it is very interesting to say the least!
Imagine a cricketer who is a great batsman, he or she would be promoted higher up the order and finally may even be made the captain! But it is seen that as he or she gets promoted higher and higher, he or she will finally reach a position where he or she will actually underperform! Which is the chief reason why once you are at the top, you must quit!
It is like the credit card scam! Your credit limit is at first very low but an easily achievable limit! You are then given an option to slowly and steadily increase your spending limit! Till you reach a point when you can no longer pay the limit!
Even in government jobs it is seen that a person who has been appointed because of a certain skill is given more and more responsibilities but then finally it will reach a point when the work suffers and how!
The Peter principle is therefore expressed as: “In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
This leads to Peter’s corollary: “In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties.”
The corollary applies to the managers of big firms and the officials in a government place! So the chief and the heads are actually reached point in which they are actually incompetent!
The best solution suggested by the author is that the person in such a position must be offered the position just one level below the current position and he or she will be competent in that!
So if you have been routinely and regularly being promoted and getting skill upgraded and have reached a top position then the best position for you is one step below than the top! That is the position you will shine!
Do remember that Human body is not a machine, there are parts you cannot replace and you do not have a check engine light! In spite of ‘service’ there is no guarantee that you will ‘run’ or ‘work’ for another 10000 km! So when you realise that you have reached the top then step down!
Which is why many actors do not like the Lifetime achievement award! It is like a sentence which states that, “You have done enough! Please stop!”
Then again you have actors like Tammareddy Chalapathi Rao who proved the Peter Principle wrong by being the best even at the top!
Now you reached the Plateau of your day! The only way to go now is down! To the bed that is!
SHubh ratri!
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