{"id":60561,"date":"2021-11-21T07:06:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T12:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60561"},"modified":"2021-11-21T07:06:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T12:06:16","slug":"the-peter-principle-is-alive-and-well-across-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60561","title":{"rendered":"“The Peter Principle” Is Alive And Well Across The World"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Peter Principle” Is Alive And Well Across The World<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Have We Hit Our Level Of Incompetence?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
The Peter principle is a concept in management theory formulated by Laurence J. Peter in which the selection of a candidate for a position is based on the candidate’s performance in their current role, rather than on abilities relevant to the intended role. Thus, employees only stop being promoted once they can no longer perform effectively, and “managers rise to the level of their incompetence.” In short, this creates a situation where a seemingly intelligent person can also be very incompetent.<\/div>\n
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To an advanced species examining Earth, the search for intelligent life might not be as easy as we think.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

While humans sport some of the traits attributed to intelligence they also tend to have a short-sighted view of the future that results in them continually shooting themselves in the foot. This brings into question man’s ability to reach the next level.<\/b> Near the beginning of 2014, I penned a piece questioning how so many people were able to think the world’s surging population would not become a problem because of new energy sources. Even more puzzling is the notion we could just unload huge numbers of people to distant planets. While such faith can be sighted as a beacon of inspiration it hardly is justification for mankind to rapidly move towards the point of no return thinking everything will be fine.<\/p>\n

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Man Tends To Destroy What He Creates<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Anyone with even the slightest mechanical knowledge will tell you that solar panels, windmills, and such take a lot of energy to build and often are maintenance intense.<\/b> Both these complicated systems have a short lifespan and require a great deal of energy to be expended in just keeping them up and running…<\/p>\n

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“The Peter Principle” Is Alive And Well Across The World Have We Hit Our Level Of Incompetence? The Peter principle is a concept in management theory formulated by Laurence J. Peter in which the selection of a candidate for a position is based on the candidate’s performance in their current role, rather than on abilities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-survival-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60562,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60561\/revisions\/60562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}