Dilbert Principle, The: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management ...

Dilbert Principle, The: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management

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The Dilbert principle is a concept in management developed by Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, which states that companies tend to systematically promote incompetent employees to management to get them out of the workflow. The Dilbert principle is inspired by the Peter principle, which holds that employees are promoted based on success in their current position until they reach their "level of incompetence" and are no longer promoted. Under the Dilbert principle, employees who were never competent are promoted to management to limit the damage they can do.