But when a role is genuinely different, fresh qualities matter. The transition to management is an obvious breakpoint. The ...

It’s tragically common for people in organizations to be promoted up the hierarchy to their “level of incompetence,” a concept in management known as the Peter Principle. They are promoted because ...

No one wants an academic leader who’s been “promoted to the level of their incompetence”—not hiring committees, deans or university presidents, and certainly not the faculty and staff who work with ...

The Peter Principle states that a person competent in their job will earn a promotion to a position that requires different skills. Executives have been relying on this system in large organizations, ...

The Ig Nobel Prize is given out by a group called Improbable Research, which celebrates "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the ...