Re:The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (2009)
by watwut on Thursday June 14, 2018 @04:37AM
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Moreover, there is a reason why worst performer in terms of competence is the worst. The performance of people under his leadership is pretty much guaranteed to go down, as they are forced to fight his bad ideas or adjust.
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Re:The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (2009)
by tom_mellior on Thursday June 14, 2018 @05:23AM
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Just handwaving here, but taking the best developer out of a team (to put them elsewhere) also makes the team's overall performance go down.
Re:The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (2009)
by watwut on Thursday June 14, 2018 @05:33AM
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Yes. And he or she may also completely suck at new position. And also, if you have one superstar surrounded by weak people, someone is already doing bad job.
But, worst performed (which is not same as normal average performer) is very likely to suck at leading the thing he or she was unable to learn. Or unwilling to learn. If it is latter, you can expect unwillingness to learn new position too.
Of course, revolutionary idea would be to identify traits that are necessary for new position and look for those.