Promoted to Failure: Why the Least Competent Employees End Up Running the Company

Traditional management theory, specifically the Peter Principle, dictates that people are promoted until they reach a level where they are incompetent, and there they stay. However, modern corporate structures have evolved a far more cynical and damaging mechanic known as the Dilbert Principle.

This business critique argues that companies purposefully take their least competent, most unproductive employees and promote them directly into management. Why? To get them out of the workflow. The o...