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John Philpin's avatar

It is not a corollary of the Peters principle .. but I am convinced that the two are related.

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Sharon Cortelyou's avatar

I love the tie in to incentives. When you see behavior that makes no sense on the surface, that is usually where you find the answer.

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James F. Richardson's avatar

Yes. I saw functional stupidity at Big Food companies all the time. Smart people wasting their brains. One client executive called it ‘paralysis from the neck up’

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George Barnett's avatar

I'm thinking about the mis-aligned incentives angle and how that leads to agency effects (where the people involved optimise for themselves rather than the organisation as a whole)...

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