Theschoolhouse302 #onethingseries Leadership Podcast

Learning and growing as a leader is a professional choice.The ironic part of rising to greater levels of leadership is that the skills, traits, and talents that got an individual to the new position, may not be enough for her to excel in the new role. This idea of being promoted to one’s level of incompetence was coined by Laurence J. Peter in The Peter Principle. The concept is fascinating because we’ve all experienced or have witnessed this in our own organizations--people who rise to great heights due to superior performance in their role, only to find themselves in over their head in the next position. This begs the question: how do we avoid this situation for ourselves and others? We appreciate the remedy found at Investopedia because it directly aligns with what our featured author, Michael Useem describes in The Edge, which is that leaders must continually learn to keep their organization succeeding. A possible solution to the problem posed by the Peter Principle is for companies to provide adequat