A star not yet lit · Economics
Peter Principle
Everyone is promoted until they reach the job they cannot do.
Everyone is promoted until they reach the job they cannot do. That is the claim, and it is the kind that looks obvious until we try to say where it stops. Where does it hold, where does it fail, and what changes once we can see it at work? That is a conversation, not a paragraph.
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- Goodhart's Law
- Gresham's Law
- Principal-Agent Problem
- Selectorate Theory
- Survivorship Bias
- Creative Destruction
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