“Someday when I am incompetent…”: Reflections on the Peter Principle, Leadership, and Emotional Intelligence

A few years ago I learned of the “Peter Principle”: the concept that in hierarchical organizations, whether public or private, individuals are promoted up to their level of incompetence, and there they remain (Peter and Hull 16). In their book of the same name, the authors observe with satirical accuracy that, regardless of career field, [...]