DANIEL ASSA
Israel. Givatayim, 90 Shenkin Menahem St. 5330801
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Israel. Givatayim: February 4, 2018
Professor Laurence j. Peter discovered and formulated with an amassing distinguishing ability and talent, the principle bearing his name – "The Peter Principle".
According to this principle – "at ranked system every employee tends to rise to his level of lake of talent" – (The Peter Principle, Opus publishing house 2014, in Hebrew). I will rephrase it to common language – employee in a hierarchical system will almost always reach a role that is beyond his abilities and capabilities.
Professor Laurence j. Peter believed that by learning, understanding, studying of the situation and with experience, entering the trap of the Peter Principle can be avoided. In my understanding, the principle formulated by Professor Laurence j. Peter is actually a law of nature. An unchangeable law. A law which you can, at best situation, learns how to live with while minimizing the damages.
The Origin of the Peter Principle is hidden, to my understanding, in our inability to predict the future with reasonable accuracy.
In predicting the future, a fundamental physical law applies, which is called "The Uncertainty Principle" by Warner Heisenberg. This principle, originating from Quantum Mechanics which was formulated in the first quarter of the 20th century, has become a long time ago, a guiding principle for the analyzing of the reality. The Uncertainty Principle subordinates our deterministic ability to predict the future, to statistical laws. In fact, it eliminates the determinism when predicting what will happen in a single event, and it leaves us only the ability to predict general trends, in accordance with the statistical tools.
Note: Determinism here means – absolute capability to predict future behavior based on knowledge of past data.
An appointment of the right man for the job at top ranks is distinctively a prediction of the future of a single event subject to the Peter Principle, which derives, as stated, from the Principle of Uncertainty. Therefore, wrong decisions in appointing senior employees will always be made by employers, even if they spend their time learning and understanding the Peter Principle and its results.
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