<h2>Responses to the Peter Principle</h2>"Women and minorities were exempted from the idea because they often weren’t promoted despite their competence and so didn’t get the chance to reach their level of incompetence.""What really happens is that managers are promoted, not to their level of immutable incompetence, but to their level of anxiety and depression, which overwhelms their ambition and desire to succeed."

Most managers address the bad boss problem by getting out of the subordinate role as quickly as possible and, by improving their own leadership skills, becoming a good boss.

A Reverse Peter Principle

<blockquote>Most leaders are also subordinates, most subordinates are also leaders.</blockquote>A good follower have almost the same traits as a good leader. If everyone could manage themselves, commit to the organization, competent, courageous, honest, and credible, then Peter Principle would probably never have been written.

Incompetence can also be seen on how subordinates deal with their bosses.Workers feel anxious on how their bosses think about them. Should I correct my boss? Does he think of me as a competitor? Am I capable enough? Should I take an action?Of course, everyone would think of those question before making a move. But a wise subordinate know can recognize that a boss does not know what he needs and the best thing to do is address their suggestions to the boss. Why? Because the boss is the one with the greater power to act.

Incompetence is Everywhere

Management journals would not exist if managers were always perfect, so it's no surprise that HBR has long been exploring the reasons behind manager incompetence and whose responsibility it is to compensate - the boss or the subordinate. Nowhere was the problem stated more acutely, it could be argued, than in the wicked 1969 satire, The Peter Principle.

A Reverse Peter Principle

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