The earlier article got a bit of interest, a lot more than I expected, but also some discussion of whether it made sense at all. An example oft quoted is of Google. So using recent events I’d like add this post to underline what exactly the Peter Principle of Innovation says.
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Posted in Google, Innovation, StartUps on April 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Peter Principle of Innovation
Posted in Innovation, StartUps on March 24, 2007 | 8 Comments »
The original Peter Principle was a classic of the 70’s, essentially stating that “in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence”.
At that point they have reached as far as they can go in that organization and can no longer be promoted. As a corollary, the Peter Principle states, all useful [...]
Hello world!
Posted in Innovation, StartUps on February 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hello blogospherical world! As friends know I have been blogging about tags and databases for a while at Tagschema . But since that blog is narrowly focused and I want to keep it that way, and I have other non-tagschemical thoughts bubbling up for a while now, I started this blog.
Since I [...]