Economists believe that how you behave is telling me a lot more about you than what you say about yourself. Researchers lake tidelis and hoffman and bloom have been chipping away at the black box of boss behavior, but we've got a long way to go. Kelly sho: The peter principle states very simply, that in any hierarchy, an employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
People who are good at their jobs routinely get promoted into bigger jobs they’re bad at. We explain why firms keep producing incompetent managers — and why that’s unlikely to change.