Peter principle
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Sep 11, 2026
Mark LevinHOST
Uh-huh.
RayAUDIENCE
And, um, and aside from that, I kind of use the Peter Principle of evangelism, uh, being a good example in front of them, that they might be won, quote, "without a word."
Mark LevinHOST
Uh-huh.
RayAUDIENCE
I just do the best I can.
Steve KeenGUEST
And even though the Chinese system looks undemocratic to us, and it has a potential to get a god-king syndrome developing as well, there's a selection process to get into the Communist Party and to rise up its ranks that effectively amount to an ombudsman-style system to let people through who are successful at their management at lower levels.
Steve KeenGUEST
Now, they might confirm the Peter Principle and be ineffective when they get to the top.
Steve KeenGUEST
But so far, I think it shows that system works a lot better in getting sensible people to make decisions and make sensible decisions about what to do than we're doing in the West.
David WoodHOST
Professor Steve Keen, you've offered radical prescriptions, radical analysis, but I think it's clear in the world we're living in, we do need radical prescriptions and radical analysis.
Scott SmithHOST
Now, in the case of yesterday, he's wrapping up a semester at school.
Scott SmithHOST
What do they call the principal? Is it the Peter principle? Is that what it is? The one that says, oh, semester's going to be done.
Scott SmithHOST
I have to have a decision by then, right? So we now know the deadline's been set.
Scott SmithHOST
So the first thing is just understand, all right, change is coming.
Joe ThomasHOST
You see what I mean? We do ourselves in.
Joe ThomasHOST
It's what they call the Peter principle.
Joe ThomasHOST
You want to continue to climb the ladder, but we're climbing the wrong ladders.
Joe ThomasHOST
If you're good at being a boss, then you should, you know, ex- execute that.
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Joe ThomasHOST
But we can get back into that.
Joe ThomasHOST
I just wanna finish this point about n- n- you know, executive functions.
Joe ThomasHOST
How many businesses, because they've promoted somebody past their point of, uh, what's the, uh, Peter principle? Your, your point of competency into a position just because you've been there longest.
Joe ThomasHOST
And I've lived through this.
Matthew WattsHOST
Yeah, real estate is a living, breathing asset class and it needs the care and attention.
Matthew WattsHOST
How did you find going from an agent to a manager leader? Because very often in businesses, there's that Peter Principle where you promote your high performers who bill really good money into management or leadership roles and it just doesn't quite work out.
Matthew WattsHOST
How did you find that transition and did it come naturally?
Tim RobinsonGUEST
It didn't come naturally and I still miss a deal.
JimmyHOST
But it's interesting.
JimmyHOST
Like you were talking about earlier, kind of like rising above your station, the whole Peter Principle thing.
JimmyHOST
I'm not going to say more words, but I think there's that thing about Josh DeMauro.
JimmyHOST
But anyway, any other thoughts on D23?
Chris CutroneGUEST
State secrets.
Chris CutroneGUEST
State secrets and the Peter principle.
Douglas LainHOST
Right.
Douglas LainHOST
[laughs] exactly.
Doug NollGUEST
Happens over and over and over again.
Doug NollGUEST
In fact, there was a book in the 1960s called The Peter Principle.
Doug NollGUEST
That still holds true today.
Doug NollGUEST
And that's a dynamic that's going on.
Graham BowerHOST
But I...
Graham BowerHOST
From my experience, limited experience in the corporate world, that Peter principle really applies of, you know, people being promoted to their own unique level of incompetence.
Graham BowerHOST
You keep getting promoted until you land in a job that you're not capable of executing on.
Graham BowerHOST
And one of the things which I think is related to that, and especially as an issue, if we're is management isn't about products and people that are great product people are not necessarily great managers and vice versa.
Leander KahneyHOST
It's funny, isn't it? People have been re-evaluating Ives' career.
Leander KahneyHOST
A lot of the problems, butterfly keyboard, the focus on super thinness and all of those problems they went through like, you know, five years ago seem to disappear since I've left, you know, and everything's gotten better since he's been gone.
Graham BowerHOST
To me, it's an example of the Peter principle again, though, because, you know, in that sense, Johnny Ive did brilliantly at Apple when he had steve jobs to balance him but when he became what was it chief design officer or whatever when he became c-suite and there was no one to balance him i i think the the decision making became a little bit more shaky i think he's a brilliant designer an absolute genius but sometimes you need like you have these amazing double acts and i think he was an amazing double act with Steve Jobs.
Graham BowerHOST
And, uh, you know, I'm sure he's got more amazing things to share with us, but I don't know if it will be with open AI because I'm not sure that they have a, a jobs there in Sam Altman to sort of balance him with like sage judgment.
speaker_3HOST
It conflates clinical excellence with administrative capability.
Mohamed ImamHOST
It is the Peter Principle applied to medicine.
Mohamed ImamHOST
It is the assumption that if you are exceptionally good at doing the work, like if your revision joint replacements are flawless, your ultimate reward is that you must now manage the people doing the work.
speaker_3HOST
Which is a completely flawed mechanism.
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