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Is There a Peter Principle in the Wild?
kelly shu's research paper tried to identify the peter principle in the wild. She had performance data on roughly forty thousand sales workers and around a hundred 30 companies. The next step was to confirm that companies indeed use an employee's job performance as a trigger for promotion. We find that doubling in worker sales corresponds to a 30 % increase in the probability of being promoted.