[ale] pyramids??

[Scott Castaline]

krwatson at cc.gatech.edu wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Scott
>> Castaline
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 13:49
>> To: ale at ale.org
>> Subject: Re: [ale] pyramids??
>>
>> Jim Kinney wrote:
>>     
>>> Ah, yes. The traditional route to management :) If you screw up enough
>>> but posses critical information (technological or social) a promotion
>>> is clearly in order.
>>>       
>> The Peter Paul Principle, "Promote to the point of incompetency." I
>> might have the name of the principle mangled a bit as my memory ain't
>> the same as it used to be and it was about 30 years ago.
>>     
>
> Scott,
>
> I believe your referring to the Peter Principle
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
>
>
> keith
>
>
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I was close, but no cigar, manged to mangle the principle too. Blame it 
on Oltimerz disease.