@shakib.hammad: The reward for being great at your job is being removed from it. That's the Peter Principle, written as satire in 1969 and confirmed with data in 2019, when economists tracked nearly forty thousand salespeople across 131 firms and found companies promote their best sellers into management, where they underperform, while the traits that actually predict good managers get ignored. The part the video doesn't say: the fix already exists and most companies refuse it. It's the dual ladder, letting brilliant individual contributors rise in pay and status without being converted into managers. Firms resist it because the hierarchy is the prize system, and separating reward from management threatens the whole tournament. Which means the Peter Principle isn't an accident. It's the cost of using promotion as a trophy. What would your best people do if getting better at their craft didn't require leaving it? #startupfounder #leadership #decisionmaking #behavioralscience #management

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