While I\u2019m sure everyone thinks I\u2019m going to write about Tom Peters, instead, there is another, more famous Peter Principle out there:<\/p>\n
The Peter Principle is the principle that “In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence.” While formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in a humorous book which also introduced the “salutary science of Hierarchiology” “inadvertently founded” by Peter, their 1968 The Peter Principle, the principle has real validity.<\/p>\n
The principle holds that in a hierarchy members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their “level of incompetence”), and there they remain. Peter’s Corollary states that “in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties” and adds that “work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence”. ((wikipedia.com))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The whole point of talent management is that people should be prepared to take on the next role because we in HR have done a decent job creating and coordinating programs that actually force them to prepare. The question is whether there is some innate point at which a person simply reaches his capacity to learn and simply can\u2019t progress any further. Each and every employee has a set of strengths and competencies that are probably defined outside of their work skills. Some leaders are simply leaders while others may be logical choices but don\u2019t seem to have the ability to emotionally draw in the employee base. Regardless of your political inclination, look at the recent sparring between Obama and Clinton in the U.S. presidential campaigns. Where their platforms are identical, and Clinton has more experience, Obama is able to reach the public more charismatically.<\/p>\n
This is all to say that there are skills that can be learned through development and experience, but there may be others that are simply not trainable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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