According to Venkatesh Rao, MacLeod’s Company Hierarchy is the cornerstone of The Gervais Principle, which supersedes both the Peter Principle1 and The Dilbert Principle2.
- Laurence J. Peter, states that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their “level of incompetence”: employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent. ↩
- Developed by Scott Adams, it states that companies tend to systematically promote incompetent employees to management to get them out of the workflow. ↩