“We should return to what Dr. Lawrence Peter wanted: rewarding ordinary competence and being wary of feats that come too easily. Consider how Captain Chesley Sullenberger III explained his astounding emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River in January. ‘I know I speak for the entire crew when I tell you we were simply doing the jobs we were trained to do,’ he said. As Dr. Peter might have observed, there were no pretenders, blowhards, or shared delusions that day, just the deftly coordinated actions of people who had not reached their level of incompetence.”
http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2009-04-01/the-peter-principle-lives
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