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Who does not know them, the incompetent bosses, with whom everyone Employees asks: How did he get into the management position? Probably thanks to a lot of pomposity - and the Peter principle. Find out how here.
“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to level up to their inability level…. After a period of time, each position is filled by an employee who is unable to carry out his task. ”
The short film embedded above by Kathrin Albers, Jim Lacy and Nils Hartlef received the 2007 Business Prize and shows very nicely: In our businessSystem the others work: namely those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
In his well-known book “Dilbert Principle”, cartoonist Scott Adams even goes one step further: He says that companies deliberately promote their incompetent employees to middle management because that is where they can cause the least damage. Or as Adams puts it: “The executive floor is an attempt by nature to keep idiots out of the production process.
What follows inevitably is what I already have in my book on perfectionism wrote: Those who always do their work particularly well are at a disadvantage on the career ladder! What to do instead Career book author Hermann Rühle describes:
Wait for something to take care of itself. If not, get your personal best and get it fast still go. Wait for someone else to do it. After all, the work goes where it is done. Avoid being there if possible.
In short: the real recipe for success is to let others do your work as far as possible. This is also one of the core statements of the video shown above: Accordingly, laziness is one of the most important key qualifications for management, because these employees, out of sheer laziness, look for the simplest, most economical Solution search.
Intelligent, dedicated people are left with only one solution - and the one that betrays the film: feigning incompetence in order to be promoted. Apparently, bosses prefer incompetent employees so as not to jeopardize their own position.
So always make a fool of you, then also works with the promotion! Reminds me by the way Corinne Maier and one Blog post I used to be a career obstacle intelligence some time ago wrote. (Attention: Of course the post is meant ironically ...)
And that creates difficult situations for employees. Like this one: Actually, you have something completely different. But suddenly one is forced to deal with some junk, because ER occurs suddenly on the plan: The Busyness!
Often provided with a good deal of profile neurosis, he makes a lot of noise for nothing, for a complete triviality and one wonders what actually happened and what he is so excited about.
At first, one is quickly tempted to dismiss the whole thing as what it is: pomposity. But that only irritates the busybody even more, because he's in his Significance have to puff up. So ignoring is a very bad solution.
Because even if it is only a felt superior: If he wants, he still finds a way to drive you to the cart. And the more you feel the superiority, the more he wants! Incidentally, also factors such as new job skills and similar uncertainties in the job cause such behaviors.
And while you are still slurping on your coffee cup, in the hope of the values colleague will calm down again, the disaster takes its course!
So what to do? Accept. Just tell the busybody. Do what he wants. Even if it hurts first. But then you can fight back with the punker's own weapons, just exaggerating a bit:
It then helps, as far as possible, to transfer the responsibility very subtly to the busybull, because he wanted it so - and he has now! Even if it costs some overcoming at the beginning.
Speaking of the coffee cup: it helps, here People to assess correctly. The coffee cup can help with that. If you look at one Office to be more precise, there is a different coffee mug on every desk. And it reveals a lot about its owner, as the Hamburg psychologist Annika Lohstroh explains.
Whether one can say that so simply and flatly, is put there. For I know for each of the illustrated examples also counterexamples. But it's always interesting what coffee cups can tell about our fellow human beings.
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Simone Janson is publisher, Consultant and one of the 10 most important German bloggers Blogger Relevance Index. She is also head of the Institute's job pictures Yourweb, with which she donates money for sustainable projects. According to ZEIT owns her trademarked blog Best of HR – Berufebilder.de® to the most important blogs for careers, professions and the world of work. More about her im Career. All texts by Simone Janson.
Great post, personal skills are so important, I really enjoy being here all the time.
[...] to the level of their incompetence, the so-called Peter Principle or as Sauer says. The good expert is not the same as the good [...]
An absolutely funny video. :)
I think more about work, but that's probably also because of how well you can stand doing nothing. I can at least recommend our new blog article to all those who don't have it with Peter, but rather prefer the productivity principle: http://www.beyond-9to5.de/984/produktivitaets-profi-haben/ It doesn't say anything how to work your way up to the level of your own incompetence, but how you can get a little more out of the day.
Greetings & thanks for the cheerful cheer,
Tanya
Key qualifications #Laziness & #Incompetence - how does #Success & # promotion work according to the #Peter principle?
Key qualification laziness & incompetence as a recipe for success: The Peter principle #Business
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