A few years ago, I was in one of my ruts. Everything I was working on seemed to be bogged down or low-leverage. What was so frustrating was that this had come on the heels of a few amazingly productive months, where I had gotten a lot done. Worse yet, this seemed to happen cyclically: periods of productivity and a sense of accomplishment were followed by periods of delays and a sense of frustration.
Coincidentally, around the same time, I had just heard of the Peter Principle, which goes something like this:
Continue reading“Every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence”
Laurence J. Peter, THE Peter Principle (1969)
