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A common example of this is in any technical field where an especially good engineer may be promoted to lead engineer and then made a supervisor. Now, his strongest skillset is going unused—supervisors don't get to engineer directly—and he struggles to get by using his less developed management skills.
 
The name[[Trope comesNamer]] fromis written bythe book co-authored by Raymond Hull, but shared author credit and titled the book after [[Neologism|hierarchiologist]] [[Trope Namer|Dr. Laurence J. Peter]] (who did the research), which is about this principle, and discusses it in about twelve chapters worth of detail.
 
A common cause of the [[Pointy-Haired Boss]] and [[Modern Major-General]]. The [[Career-Building Blunder]] is one method of defying this trope. Compare and contrast [[Brain Drain]].
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