i am curious your thoughts on the notion of promotion into management as a reward for being good at what you've been doing all along. I want to do something that i love and am really passionate about, because that's the only way. And how do you moti then, i believe you looked at the peter principle paper. Is that right? Ye, i did. It's that people rise to the level of their incompetence, which i find is a bit cruel sounding,. But maybe they're not as good as that; it's not like they suddenly turn into idiots.
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